held together by subject

Destruction of mountains

Verses describing the physical destruction and leveling of mountains and the earth on the Day of Judgment.

21
verses
20
Meccan
1
Medinan
0.95
cohesion

Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1.

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

  • Al-Waaqia 56:5✦ skyread

    وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّا

    And the mountains are broken down, crumbling

  • At-Tur 52:10✦ skyread

    وَتَسِيرُ ٱلْجِبَالُ سَيْرًا

    And the mountains will pass on, departing -

  • Taa-Haa 20:106✦ skyread

    فَيَذَرُهَا قَاعًا صَفْصَفًا

    And He will leave the earth a level plain;

  • An-Naba 78:20✦ skyread

    وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا

    And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

  • At-Takwir 81:3✦ skyread

    وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ

    And when the mountains are removed

  • Al-Haaqqa 69:14✦ skyread

    وَحُمِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَٱلْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَٰحِدَةً

    And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow -

  • Al-Infitaar 82:3✦ skyread

    وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ

    And when the seas are erupted

  • Al-Inshiqaaq 84:3✦ skyread

    وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ

    And when the earth has been extended

  • Al-Ma'aarij 70:9✦ skyread

    وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ

    And the mountains will be like wool,

  • Maryam 19:90✦ skyread

    تَكَادُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنشَقُّ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ ٱلْجِبَالُ هَدًّا

    The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation

  • Al-Fajr 89:21✦ skyread

    كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا

    No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed -

  • An-Naazi'aat 79:32✦ skyread

    وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَرْسَىٰهَا

    And the mountains He set firmly

  • An-Naazi'aat 79:30✦ skyread

    وَٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَىٰهَآ

    And after that He spread the earth.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:10✦ skyread

    وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ نُسِفَتْ

    And when the mountains are blown away

  • Az-Zalzala 99:2✦ skyread

    وَأَخْرَجَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا

    And the earth discharges its burdens

  • Al-Qaari'a 101:5✦ skyread

    وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

    And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

  • An-Najm 53:53✦ skyread

    وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ أَهْوَىٰ

    And the overturned towns He hurled down

  • Al-Qamar 54:12✦ skyread

    وَفَجَّرْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ عُيُونًا فَٱلْتَقَى ٱلْمَآءُ عَلَىٰٓ أَمْرٍ قَدْ قُدِرَ

    And caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined.

  • Al-Waaqia 56:4✦ skyread

    إِذَا رُجَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ رَجًّا

    When the earth is shaken with convulsion

  • An-Naba 78:7✦ skyread

    وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًا

    And the mountains as stakes?

  • Taa-Haa 20:107✦ skyread

    لَّا تَرَىٰ فِيهَا عِوَجًا وَلَآ أَمْتًا

    You will not see therein a depression or an elevation."

Where it falls

These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Waaqia.

Al-Fatihathe long middleAn-Nas

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.

mercy0.26x the book

how strongly mercy sounds

judgment1.33x the book

how strongly judgment sounds

command0.00x the book

how much it instructs rather than describes

the hereafter2.25x the book

how much it points beyond this life

warmth0.55x the book

how positive the verse feels

intensity1.21x the book

how charged the language is

The pale line in each bar is the whole book’s average for that channel.

Next to this

The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.

This group was not chosen in advance. All 6,236 verses were clustered by their meaning embeddings, and this is one of the 120 groups that fell out. Its name and description were written afterwards by a language model reading the verses above: they describe what is here, and are not categories drawn from tradition.

Verse text comes from the same sources as the rest of the site. This page shows where the Quran speaks; it does not issue rulings.