Declarations of certainty
Emphatic Quranic verses asserting absolute truth, divine plans, and the reality of the afterlife against human doubt.
- 17
- verses
- 17
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.93
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is on the loose side, so the group holds together less tightly than most.
The verses
Closest to the group’s centre first.
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ حَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Indeed, this is the true certainty,
وَإِنَّهُۥ لَحَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ
And indeed, it is the truth of certainty.
وَمَا هُوَ بِٱلْهَزْلِ
And it is not amusement.
وَٱنتَظِرُوٓا۟ إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ
And wait, indeed, we are waiting."
إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا
Indeed, they are planning a plan,
وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا
But I am planning a plan.
إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ
Indeed, he thought and deliberated.
بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّ يَلْعَبُونَ
But they are in doubt, amusing themselves.
أَفَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَيِّتِينَ
Then, are we not to die
إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَتَّىٰ
Indeed, your efforts are diverse.
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ ٱلْبَلَٰٓؤُا۟ ٱلْمُبِينُ
Indeed, this was the clear trial.
إِنِّى ظَنَنتُ أَنِّى مُلَٰقٍ حِسَابِيَهْ
Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."
وَمَكَرُوا۟ مَكْرًا كُبَّارًا
And they conspired an immense conspiracy.
إِنِّىٓ إِذًا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ
Indeed, I would then be in manifest error.
وَإِنَّا لَجَمِيعٌ حَٰذِرُونَ
And indeed, we are a cautious society... "
يَٰلَيْتَهَا كَانَتِ ٱلْقَاضِيَةَ
I wish my death had been the decisive one.
إِذَا وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ
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Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Haaqqa.
A histogram of where this topic’s verses fall across the book in reading order.
How it sounds
Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.
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how much it instructs rather than describes
how much it points beyond this life
how positive the verse feels
how charged the language is
The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.
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