Surah Az-Zukhruf · Ayah 38·Makkī

38

حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا يَٰلَيْتَ ﴿٣٨﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

Until, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "Oh, I wish there was between me and you the distance between the east and west - how wretched a companion."

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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

Recitation · 11 points across 3 rule families

  • Madd munfaṣil7
  • Lām qamariyyah2
  • Light 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 38 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.

  • وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ وَلَٰكِن لَّا تُبْصِرُونَ

    And Our angels are nearer to him than you, but you do not see -

  • سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا

    I will cover him with arduous torment.

  • قَالَ قَرِينُهُۥ رَبَّنَا مَآ أَطْغَيْتُهُۥ وَلَٰكِن كَانَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۭ بَعِيدٍ

    His [devil] companion will say, "Our Lord, I did not make him transgress, but he [himself] was in extreme error."

  • وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُ نَادُوا۟ شُرَكَآءِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ فَدَعَوْهُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لَهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُم مَّوْبِقًا

    And [warn of] the Day when He will say, "Call 'My partners' whom you claimed," and they will invoke them, but they will not respond to them. And We will put between them [a valley…

  • وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ

    And a tongue and two lips?

  • أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُمُ ٱلْأَقْدَمُونَ

    You and your ancient forefathers?

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.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:52 shared roots

    رَّبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ

    ش-ر-قب-ي-ن

  • As-Saaffaat 37:512 shared roots

    قَالَ قَآئِلٌ مِّنْهُمْ إِنِّى كَانَ لِى قَرِينٌ

    ق-ر-نق-و-ل

  • Qaaf 50:273 shared roots

    قَالَ قَرِينُهُۥ رَبَّنَا مَآ أَطْغَيْتُهُۥ وَلَٰكِن كَانَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۭ بَعِيدٍ

    ق-ر-نب-ع-دق-و-ل

  • Al-Muminoon 23:422 shared roots

    ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قُرُونًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    ق-ر-نب-ع-د

  • Al-Muminoon 23:312 shared roots

    ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قَرْنًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    ق-ر-نب-ع-د

  • Al-A'raaf 7:53 shared roots

    فَمَا كَانَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ إِذْ جَآءَهُم بَأْسُنَآ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ

    ب-أ-سج-ي-أق-و-ل

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 43:38?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 43:38 include Quran 56:85 (Surah Al-Waaqia), Quran 74:17 (Surah Al-Muddaththir), Quran 50:27 (Surah Qaaf), and Quran 18:52 (Surah Al-Kahf). For example, 56:85 reads: “And Our angels are nearer to him than you, but you do not see -” 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 43:38 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 43:38 (Surah Az-Zukhruf, Ornaments of gold) reads: “Until, when he comes to Us [at Judgement], he says [to his companion], "Oh, I wish there was between me and you the distance between the east and west - how wretched a companion."”

Which surah is verse 43:38 in?

Quran 43:38 is āyah 38 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 43:38?

Tartīl presents Quran 43:38 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.