Surah Yaseen · Ayah 54·Makkī

54

لَا وَلَا إِلَّا مَا ﴿٥٤﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

So today no soul will be wronged at all, and you will not be recompensed except for what you used to do.

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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 7 of 11 words

Recitation · 11 points across 5 rule families

  • Lām qamariyyah1
  • Madd ṭabīʿī5
  • Ikhfāʾ3
  • Qalqalah1
  • Iẓhār shafawī1

Commentary

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

Shape

11 words · 42 letters · āyah 54 of 83

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.

  • يَوْمَ تَأْتِى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ تُجَٰدِلُ عَن نَّفْسِهَا وَتُوَفَّىٰ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَّا عَمِلَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ

    On the Day when every soul will come disputing for itself, and every soul will be fully compensated for what it did, and they will not be wronged.

  • وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    And you will not be recompensed except for what you used to do -

  • وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ

    And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

  • وَلَن يَنفَعَكُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ إِذ ظَّلَمْتُمْ أَنَّكُمْ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ

    And never will it benefit you that Day, when you have wronged, that you are [all] sharing in the punishment.

  • يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ إِنَّمَا تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    O you who have disbelieved, make no excuses that Day. You will only be recompensed for what you used to do.

  • فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يَنفَعُ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ مَعْذِرَتُهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُسْتَعْتَبُونَ

    So that Day, their excuse will not benefit those who wronged, nor will they be asked to appease [Allah].

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-Waaqia 56:243 shared roots

    جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

    ج-ز-يع-م-لك-و-ن

  • As-Saaffaat 37:393 shared roots

    وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    ج-ز-يع-م-لك-و-ن

  • Yunus 10:443 shared roots

    إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ ٱلنَّاسَ شَيْـًٔا وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱلنَّاسَ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

    ن-ف-سظ-ل-مش-ي-أ

  • Al-Anbiyaa 21:292 shared roots

    وَمَن يَقُلْ مِنْهُمْ إِنِّىٓ إِلَٰهٌ مِّن دُونِهِۦ فَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِيهِ جَهَنَّمَ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

    ج-ز-يظ-ل-م

  • Al-Ghaafir 40:174 shared roots

    ٱلْيَوْمَ تُجْزَىٰ كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ لَا ظُلْمَ ٱلْيَوْمَ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ

    ج-ز-ين-ف-سظ-ل-مي-و-م

  • At-Tahrim 66:74 shared roots

    يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ إِنَّمَا تُجْزَوْنَ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    ج-ز-يع-م-لي-و-مك-و-ن

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 36:54?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 36:54 include Quran 16:111 (Surah An-Nahl), Quran 37:39 (Surah As-Saaffaat), Quran 89:26 (Surah Al-Fajr), and Quran 43:39 (Surah Az-Zukhruf). For example, 16:111 reads: “On the Day when every soul will come disputing for itself, and every soul will be fully compensated for what it did, and they will not be wronged.” 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 36:54 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 36:54 (Surah Yaseen, Yaseen) reads: “So today no soul will be wronged at all, and you will not be recompensed except for what you used to do.”

Which surah is verse 36:54 in?

Quran 36:54 is āyah 54 of Surah Yaseen (Yaseen), chapter 36 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 83 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 36:54?

Tartīl presents Quran 36:54 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.