Former and later generations
Verses referencing the divisions of earlier and later generations of people and their spiritual outcomes.
- 3
- verses
- 3
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.97
- 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.
وَثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ
And a company of the later peoples.
وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
And there had already strayed before them most of the former peoples,
وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنَ ٱلْءَاخِرِينَ
And a few of the later peoples,
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Al-Waaqia.
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.
how strongly mercy sounds
how strongly judgment sounds
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.
Next to this
The groups sitting closest to this one in meaning.