Surah Saad · Ayah 15·Makkī

15

وَمَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ إِلَّا مَّا لَهَا مِن ﴿١٥﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

And these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay.

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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 · 4 roots in 4 of 10 words

Recitation · 13 points across 4 rule families

  • Madd ṭabīʿī7
  • Ikhfāʾ4
  • Heavy rāʾ1
  • Ghunnah1

Commentary

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

Shape

10 words · 34 letters · āyah 15 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.

  • مَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً تَأْخُذُهُمْ وَهُمْ يَخِصِّمُونَ

    They do not await except one blast which will seize them while they are disputing.

  • فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَنظُرُونَ

    It will be only one shout, and at once they will be observing.

  • إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ

    It will not be but one blast, and at once they are all brought present before Us.

  • فَذَرْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى فِيهِ يُصْعَقُونَ

    So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck insensible -

  • لَّا تَدْعُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًا وَٰحِدًا وَٱدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا كَثِيرًا

    [They will be told], "Do not cry this Day for one destruction but cry for much destruction."

  • تَتْبَعُهَا ٱلرَّادِفَةُ

    There will follow it the subsequent [one].

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.

  • Yaseen 36:493 shared roots

    مَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً تَأْخُذُهُمْ وَهُمْ يَخِصِّمُونَ

    ص-ي-حو-ح-دن-ظ-ر

  • Yaseen 36:532 shared roots

    إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ جَمِيعٌ لَّدَيْنَا مُحْضَرُونَ

    ص-ي-حو-ح-د

  • Yaseen 36:292 shared roots

    إِن كَانَتْ إِلَّا صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ خَٰمِدُونَ

    ص-ي-حو-ح-د

  • Al-Qamar 54:312 shared roots

    إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ

    ص-ي-حو-ح-د

  • As-Saaffaat 37:192 shared roots

    فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَنظُرُونَ

    و-ح-دن-ظ-ر

  • Qaaf 50:62 shared roots

    أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍ

    ف-و-قن-ظ-ر

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 38:15?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 38:15 include Quran 36:49 (Surah Yaseen), Quran 37:19 (Surah As-Saaffaat), Quran 36:53 (Surah Yaseen), and Quran 52:45 (Surah At-Tur). For example, 36:49 reads: “They do not await except one blast which will seize them while they are disputing.” 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 38:15 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 38:15 (Surah Saad, The letter Saad) reads: “And these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay.”

Which surah is verse 38:15 in?

Quran 38:15 is āyah 15 of Surah Saad (The letter Saad), chapter 38 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 88 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 38:15?

Tartīl presents Quran 38:15 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.