Surah Al-Muminoon · Ayah 80·Makkī

80

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى وَلَهُ أَفَلَا ﴿٨٠﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And it is He who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day. Then will you not reason?

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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 · 6 roots in 6 of 10 words

Recitation · 9 points across 4 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī6
  • Lām shamsiyyah1
  • Ghunnah1
  • Light rāʾ1

Commentary

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

Shape

10 words · 44 letters · āyah 80 of 118

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 3:27 · Aal-i-Imraanclose

    تُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَتُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ وَتُخْرِجُ ٱلْحَىَّ مِنَ ٱلْمَيِّتِ وَتُخْرِجُ ٱلْمَيِّتَ مِنَ ٱلْحَىِّ وَتَرْزُقُ مَن تَشَآءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

    You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night; and You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give…

  • Quran 22:66 · Al-Hajjclose

    وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَحْيَاكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكُمْ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَكَفُورٌ

    And He is the one who gave you life; then He causes you to die and then will [again] give you life. Indeed, mankind is ungrateful.

  • Quran 40:68 · Al-Ghaafirclose

    هُوَ ٱلَّذِى يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ فَإِذَا قَضَىٰٓ أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ

    He it is who gives life and causes death; and when He decrees a matter, He but says to it, "Be," and it is.

  • Quran 10:56 · Yunusclose

    هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ

    He gives life and causes death, and to Him you will be returned

  • Quran 44:8 · Ad-Dukhaanclose

    لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

    There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death. [He is] your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers.

  • Quran 53:45 · An-Najmclose

    وَأَنَّهُۥ خَلَقَ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ

    And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -

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-Jaathiya 45:55 shared roots

    وَٱخْتِلَٰفِ ٱلَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ وَمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مِن رِّزْقٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَتَصْرِيفِ ٱلرِّيَٰحِ ءَايَٰتٌ لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

    ع-ق-لل-ي-لن-ه-رخ-ل-فم-و-ت

  • As-Saaffaat 37:1382 shared roots

    وَبِٱلَّيْلِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

    ع-ق-لل-ي-ل

  • Al-Hadid 57:173 shared roots

    ٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحْىِ ٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

    ع-ق-لم-و-تح-ي-ي

  • Al-A'laa 87:132 shared roots

    ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

    م-و-تح-ي-ي

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:262 shared roots

    أَحْيَآءً وَأَمْوَٰتًا

    م-و-تح-ي-ي

  • An-Najm 53:442 shared roots

    وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَمَاتَ وَأَحْيَا

    م-و-تح-ي-ي

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 23:80?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 23:80 include Quran 3:27 (Surah Aal-i-Imraan), Quran 22:66 (Surah Al-Hajj), Quran 40:68 (Surah Al-Ghaafir), and Quran 10:56 (Surah Yunus). For example, 3:27 reads: “You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night; and You bring the living out of the dead, and You bring the dead out of the living. And You give…” 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 23:80 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 23:80 (Surah Al-Muminoon, The Believers) reads: “And it is He who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day. Then will you not reason?”

Which surah is verse 23:80 in?

Quran 23:80 is āyah 80 of Surah Al-Muminoon (The Believers), chapter 23 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 118 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 23:80?

Tartīl presents Quran 23:80 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.