Surah Az-Zukhruf · Ayah 33·Makkī

33

وَلَوْلَآ أَن لِمَن مِّن عَلَيْهَا ﴿٣٣﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And if it were not that the people would become one community [of disbelievers], We would have made for those who disbelieve in the Most Merciful - for their houses - ceilings and stairways of silver upon which to mount

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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 · 12 roots in 12 of 17 words

Rarest here: س-ق-ف 4× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 26 points across 6 rule families

  • Idghām (with ghunnah)7
  • Madd ṭabīʿī9
  • Lām shamsiyyah2
  • Ghunnah3
  • Heavy rāʾ4
  • Iẓhār shafawī1

Commentary

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

Shape

17 words · 76 letters · āyah 33 of 89

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.

  • وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ

    And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ.

  • وَأَمَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ فَكَانُوا۟ لِجَهَنَّمَ حَطَبًا

    But as for the unjust, they will be, for Hell, firewood.'

  • وَلَا صَدِيقٍ حَمِيمٍ

    And not a devoted friend.

  • وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَٱتَّقَوْا۟ لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَٰتٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبُوا۟ فَأَخَذْنَٰهُم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

    And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opened upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We…

  • وَمَآ أَمْوَٰلُكُمْ وَلَآ أَوْلَٰدُكُم بِٱلَّتِى تُقَرِّبُكُمْ عِندَنَا زُلْفَىٰٓ إِلَّا مَنْ ءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمْ جَزَآءُ ٱلضِّعْفِ بِمَا عَمِلُوا۟ وَهُمْ فِى ٱلْغُرُفَٰتِ ءَامِنُونَ

    And it is not your wealth or your children that bring you nearer to Us in position, but it is [by being] one who has believed and done righteousness. For them there will be the…

  • فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَنُؤْمِنُ لِبَشَرَيْنِ مِثْلِنَا وَقَوْمُهُمَا لَنَا عَٰبِدُونَ

    They said, "Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?"

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-Anbiyaa 21:322 shared roots

    وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوظًا وَهُمْ عَنْ ءَايَٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُونَ

    س-ق-فج-ع-ل

  • Al-Baqara 2:1632 shared roots

    وَإِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌ وَٰحِدٌ لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

    و-ح-در-ح-م

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:922 shared roots

    إِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱعْبُدُونِ

    و-ح-دأ-م-م

  • Al-Muminoon 23:522 shared roots

    وَإِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱتَّقُونِ

    و-ح-دأ-م-م

  • Ash-Shura 42:84 shared roots

    وَلَوْ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ لَجَعَلَهُمْ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَلَٰكِن يُدْخِلُ مَن يَشَآءُ فِى رَحْمَتِهِۦ وَٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ مَا لَهُم مِّن وَلِىٍّ وَلَا نَصِيرٍ

    و-ح-دأ-م-مج-ع-لر-ح-م

  • Hud 11:1184 shared roots

    وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ

    و-ح-دأ-م-مج-ع-لأ-ن-س

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 43:33?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 43:33 include Quran 11:118 (Surah Hud), Quran 72:15 (Surah Al-Jinn), Quran 26:101 (Surah Ash-Shu'araa), and Quran 7:96 (Surah Al-A'raaf). For example, 11:118 reads: “And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ.” 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 43:33 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 43:33 (Surah Az-Zukhruf, Ornaments of gold) reads: “And if it were not that the people would become one community [of disbelievers], We would have made for those who disbelieve in the Most Merciful - for their houses - ceilings and stairways of silver upon which to mount”

Which surah is verse 43:33 in?

Quran 43:33 is āyah 33 of Surah Az-Zukhruf (Ornaments of gold), chapter 43 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 89 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 43:33?

Tartīl presents Quran 43:33 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.