Surah Al-Furqaan · Ayah 47·Makkī

47

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى لَكُمُ ﴿٤٧﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.

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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 8 of 11 words

Rarest here: ن-و-م 9× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 14 points across 5 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī5
  • Ikhfāʾ3
  • Lām shamsiyyah2
  • Ghunnah2
  • Heavy rāʾ2

Commentary

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

Shape

11 words · 48 letters · āyah 47 of 77

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.

  • وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى يَتَوَفَّىٰكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا جَرَحْتُم بِٱلنَّهَارِ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُكُمْ فِيهِ لِيُقْضَىٰٓ أَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّى ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    And it is He who takes your souls by night and knows what you have committed by day. Then He revives you therein that a specified term may be fulfilled. Then to Him will be your…

  • وَمِنَ ٱلَّيْلِ فَٱسْجُدْ لَهُۥ وَسَبِّحْهُ لَيْلًا طَوِيلًا

    And during the night prostrate to Him and exalt Him a long [part of the] night.

  • هُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ لِتَسْكُنُوا۟ فِيهِ وَٱلنَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَسْمَعُونَ

    It is He who made for you the night to rest therein and the day, giving sight. Indeed in that are signs for a people who listen.

  • فَالِقُ ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ

    [He is] the cleaver of daybreak and has made the night for rest and the sun and moon for calculation. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

  • وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةً لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوْ أَرَادَ شُكُورًا

    And it is He who has made the night and the day in succession for whoever desires to remember or desires gratitude.

  • وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا

    And made the night as clothing

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.

  • An-Naba 78:93 shared roots

    وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا

    س-ب-تن-و-مج-ع-ل

  • An-Naba 78:103 shared roots

    وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا

    ل-ب-سل-ي-لج-ع-ل

  • Ar-Room 30:233 shared roots

    وَمِنْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ مَنَامُكُم بِٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَٱبْتِغَآؤُكُم مِّن فَضْلِهِۦٓ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَـَٔايَٰتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَسْمَعُونَ

    ن-و-مل-ي-لن-ه-ر

  • An-Nahl 16:1242 shared roots

    إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ ٱلسَّبْتُ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ٱخْتَلَفُوا۟ فِيهِ وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَيَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ فِيمَا كَانُوا۟ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

    س-ب-تج-ع-ل

  • Al-An'aam 6:92 shared roots

    وَلَوْ جَعَلْنَٰهُ مَلَكًا لَّجَعَلْنَٰهُ رَجُلًا وَلَلَبَسْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّا يَلْبِسُونَ

    ل-ب-سج-ع-ل

  • Nooh 71:52 shared roots

    قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّى دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِى لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا

    ل-ي-لن-ه-ر

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 25:47?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 25:47 include Quran 6:60 (Surah Al-An'aam), Quran 76:26 (Surah Al-Insaan), Quran 10:67 (Surah Yunus), and Quran 6:96 (Surah Al-An'aam). For example, 6:60 reads: “And it is He who takes your souls by night and knows what you have committed by day. Then He revives you therein that a specified term may be fulfilled. Then to Him will be your…” 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 25:47 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 25:47 (Surah Al-Furqaan, The Criterion) reads: “And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.”

Which surah is verse 25:47 in?

Quran 25:47 is āyah 47 of Surah Al-Furqaan (The Criterion), chapter 25 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 77 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 25:47?

Tartīl presents Quran 25:47 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.