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Descendants and later generations

These verses describe the succession of generations, the descendants of prophets, and the lasting legacies left for those who came after them.

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Medinan
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cohesion

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The verses

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  • As-Saaffaat 37:108✦ skyread

    وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

    And We left for him [favorable mention] among later generations:

  • As-Saaffaat 37:129✦ skyread

    وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

    And We left for him [favorable mention] among later generations:

  • Al-Muminoon 23:42✦ skyread

    ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قُرُونًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    Then We produced after them other generations.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:119✦ skyread

    وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِمَا فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

    And We left for them [favorable mention] among later generations:

  • Ad-Dukhaan 44:28✦ skyread

    كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    Thus. And We caused to inherit it another people.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:77✦ skyread

    وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُۥ هُمُ ٱلْبَاقِينَ

    And We made his descendants those remaining [on the earth]

  • Al-Muminoon 23:31✦ skyread

    ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَا مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ قَرْنًا ءَاخَرِينَ

    Then We produced after them a generation of others.

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:59✦ skyread

    كَذَٰلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

    Thus. And We caused to inherit it the Children of Israel.

  • Maryam 19:57✦ skyread

    وَرَفَعْنَٰهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا

    And We raised him to a high station.

  • As-Saaffaat 37:113✦ skyread

    وَبَٰرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَىٰٓ إِسْحَٰقَ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا مُحْسِنٌ وَظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِۦ مُبِينٌ

    And We blessed him and Isaac. But among their descendants is the doer of good and the clearly unjust to himself.

  • Al-Jaathiya 45:29✦ skyread

    هَٰذَا كِتَٰبُنَا يَنطِقُ عَلَيْكُم بِٱلْحَقِّ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنسِخُ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

    This, Our record, speaks about you in truth. Indeed, We were having transcribed whatever you used to do."

  • As-Saaffaat 37:83✦ skyread

    وَإِنَّ مِن شِيعَتِهِۦ لَإِبْرَٰهِيمَ

    And indeed, among his kind was Abraham,

  • Az-Zukhruf 43:28✦ skyread

    وَجَعَلَهَا كَلِمَةًۢ بَاقِيَةً فِى عَقِبِهِۦ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ

    And he made it a word remaining among his descendants that they might return [to it].

  • Saad 38:48✦ skyread

    وَٱذْكُرْ إِسْمَٰعِيلَ وَٱلْيَسَعَ وَذَا ٱلْكِفْلِ وَكُلٌّ مِّنَ ٱلْأَخْيَارِ

    And remember Ishmael, Elisha and Dhul-Kifl, and all are among the outstanding.

  • Al-Furqaan 25:5✦ skyread

    وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلًا

    And they say, "Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon."

  • As-Saaffaat 37:78✦ skyread

    وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

    And left for him [favorable mention] among later generations:

  • Al-Fajr 89:7✦ skyread

    إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ

    [With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,

  • Ash-Shu'araa 26:84✦ skyread

    وَٱجْعَل لِّى لِسَانَ صِدْقٍ فِى ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

    And grant me a reputation of honor among later generations.

Where it falls

These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in As-Saaffaat.

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How it sounds

Measured against the whole book, so the difference is what matters.

mercy1.41x the book

how strongly mercy sounds

judgment0.49x the book

how strongly judgment sounds

command0.12x the book

how much it instructs rather than describes

the hereafter0.38x the book

how much it points beyond this life

warmth1.40x the book

how positive the verse feels

intensity0.77x the book

how charged the language is

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