Surah Al-Qasas · Ayah 11·Makkī

11

بِهِۦ عَن وَهُمْ لَا ﴿١١﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And she said to his sister, "Follow him"; so she watched him from a distance while they perceived not.

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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 ṭabīʿī4
  • Heavy rāʾ2
  • Ikhfāʾ2
  • Iẓhār shafawī1

Commentary

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

Shape

10 words · 37 letters · āyah 11 of 88

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.

  • إِذْ تَمْشِىٓ أُخْتُكَ فَتَقُولُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ مَن يَكْفُلُهُۥ فَرَجَعْنَٰكَ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّكَ كَىْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا تَحْزَنَ وَقَتَلْتَ نَفْسًا فَنَجَّيْنَٰكَ مِنَ ٱلْغَمِّ وَفَتَنَّٰكَ فُتُونًا فَلَبِثْتَ سِنِينَ فِىٓ أَهْلِ مَدْيَنَ ثُمَّ جِئْتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرٍ يَٰمُوسَىٰ

    [And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content…

  • فَلَمَّا جَآءَ ءَالَ لُوطٍ ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ

    And when the messengers came to the family of Lot,

  • فَحَمَلَتْهُ فَٱنتَبَذَتْ بِهِۦ مَكَانًا قَصِيًّا

    So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a remote place.

  • فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ عَلِيمٍ

    And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.

  • فَأَوْحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ مَآ أَوْحَىٰ

    And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed.

  • قَالَ هِىَ رَٰوَدَتْنِى عَن نَّفْسِى وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَآ إِن كَانَ قَمِيصُهُۥ قُدَّ مِن قُبُلٍ فَصَدَقَتْ وَهُوَ مِنَ ٱلْكَٰذِبِينَ

    [Joseph] said, "It was she who sought to seduce me." And a witness from her family testified. "If his shirt is torn from the front, then she has told the truth, and he is of the…

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.

  • Yusuf 12:53 shared roots

    قَالَ يَٰبُنَىَّ لَا تَقْصُصْ رُءْيَاكَ عَلَىٰٓ إِخْوَتِكَ فَيَكِيدُوا۟ لَكَ كَيْدًا إِنَّ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنَ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ

    ق-ص-صأ-خ-وق-و-ل

  • Al-Haaqqa 69:412 shared roots

    وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَاعِرٍ قَلِيلًا مَّا تُؤْمِنُونَ

    ش-ع-رق-و-ل

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:1612 shared roots

    إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَخُوهُمْ لُوطٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ

    أ-خ-وق-و-ل

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:1062 shared roots

    إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَخُوهُمْ نُوحٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ

    أ-خ-وق-و-ل

  • As-Saaffaat 37:362 shared roots

    وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ مَّجْنُونٍۭ

    ش-ع-رق-و-ل

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:1422 shared roots

    إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَخُوهُمْ صَٰلِحٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ

    أ-خ-وق-و-ل

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 28:11?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 28:11 include Quran 20:40 (Surah Taa-Haa), Quran 15:61 (Surah Al-Hijr), Quran 19:22 (Surah Maryam), and Quran 51:28 (Surah Adh-Dhaariyat). For example, 20:40 reads: “[And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content…” 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 28:11 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 28:11 (Surah Al-Qasas, The Stories) reads: “And she said to his sister, "Follow him"; so she watched him from a distance while they perceived not.”

Which surah is verse 28:11 in?

Quran 28:11 is āyah 11 of Surah Al-Qasas (The Stories), chapter 28 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 88 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 28:11?

Tartīl presents Quran 28:11 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.