Surah Al-A'raaf · Ayah 9·Makkī

9

وَمَنْ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ بِمَا ﴿٩﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And those whose scales are light - they are the ones who will lose themselves for what injustice they were doing toward Our verses.

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Tafsīr

No commentary indexed for this ayah yet.

Verse DNA · this āyah at a glance

Vocabulary and recitation are counted from the morphology and the Uthmani marks; commentary reports whether an authored tafsīr entry reaches this āyah. A structural read, not a judgement — a denser strip is not a weightier verse.

Vocabulary · 7 roots in 7 of 11 words

Recitation · 16 points across 4 rule families

  • Iẓhār2
  • Madd ṭabīʿī12
  • Heavy rāʾ1
  • Ikhfāʾ shafawī1

Commentary

No tafsīr entry reaches this āyah yet — the interpretive layer covers a pilot, not the whole Book.

Shape

11 words · 55 letters · āyah 9 of 206

once in the Qurʾān2–10×11–50×51–300×300+×

Similar verses by meaning

Ranked by semantic similarity over translation embeddings — a model’s proxy for meaning, not a claim about it, and not tafsīr. Verses may be kin in theme while differing entirely in wording.

  • Quran 23:103 · Al-Muminoonvery close

    وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فِى جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدُونَ

    But those whose scales are light - those are the ones who have lost their souls, [being] in Hell, abiding eternally.

  • Quran 22:57 · Al-Hajjclose

    وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ مُّهِينٌ

    And they who disbelieved and denied Our signs - for those there will be a humiliating punishment.

  • Quran 42:45 · Ash-Shuraclose

    وَتَرَىٰهُمْ يُعْرَضُونَ عَلَيْهَا خَٰشِعِينَ مِنَ ٱلذُّلِّ يَنظُرُونَ مِن طَرْفٍ خَفِىٍّ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَهْلِيهِمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَلَآ إِنَّ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ فِى عَذَابٍ مُّقِيمٍ

    And you will see them being exposed to the Fire, humbled from humiliation, looking from [behind] a covert glance. And those who had believed will say, "Indeed, the [true] losers…

  • Quran 18:105 · Al-Kahfclose

    أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَلِقَآئِهِۦ فَحَبِطَتْ أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَزْنًا

    Those are the ones who disbelieve in the verses of their Lord and in [their] meeting Him, so their deeds have become worthless; and We will not assign to them on the Day of…

  • Quran 7:149 · Al-A'raafclose

    وَلَمَّا سُقِطَ فِىٓ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَرَأَوْا۟ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ ضَلُّوا۟ قَالُوا۟ لَئِن لَّمْ يَرْحَمْنَا رَبُّنَا وَيَغْفِرْ لَنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

    And when regret overcame them and they saw that they had gone astray, they said, "If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will surely be among the losers."

  • Quran 11:21 · Hudclose

    أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

    Those are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.

Verses built from the same roots

Ranked by shared vocabulary (idf-cosine over each verse’s root-set). Shared words are a fact about form — they do not by themselves mean two verses are about the same thing.

  • Al-Muminoon 23:1034 shared roots

    وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فِى جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدُونَ

    خ-ف-فو-ز-نخ-س-رن-ف-س

  • Al-Qaari'a 101:82 shared roots

    وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

    خ-ف-فو-ز-ن

  • Ar-Rahmaan 55:92 shared roots

    وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلْوَزْنَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا۟ ٱلْمِيزَانَ

    و-ز-نخ-س-ر

  • Al-Mutaffifin 83:32 shared roots

    وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمْ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمْ يُخْسِرُونَ

    و-ز-نخ-س-ر

  • Al-A'raaf 7:234 shared roots

    قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَآ أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

    خ-س-رن-ف-سظ-ل-مك-و-ن

  • Al-A'raaf 7:234 shared roots

    قَالَا رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَآ أَنفُسَنَا وَإِن لَّمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

    خ-س-رن-ف-سظ-ل-مك-و-ن

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 7:9?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 7:9 include Quran 23:103 (Surah Al-Muminoon), Quran 22:57 (Surah Al-Hajj), Quran 42:45 (Surah Ash-Shura), and Quran 18:105 (Surah Al-Kahf). For example, 23:103 reads: “But those whose scales are light - those are the ones who have lost their souls, [being] in Hell, abiding eternally.” These are ranked by comparing translations of every verse in the Qurʾān, so they are a measure of similar wording and theme — not a tafsīr ruling.

What does Quran 7:9 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 7:9 (Surah Al-A'raaf, The Heights) reads: “And those whose scales are light - they are the ones who will lose themselves for what injustice they were doing toward Our verses.”

Which surah is verse 7:9 in?

Quran 7:9 is āyah 9 of Surah Al-A'raaf (The Heights), chapter 7 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 206 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 7:9?

Tartīl presents Quran 7:9 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.