Peace upon the prophets
Quranic verses that bestow blessings of peace upon various prophets and messengers.
- 7
- verses
- 7
- Meccan
- 0
- Medinan
- 0.96
- cohesion
Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1.
What binds this group is form rather than subject: repeated phrasing, a shared opening, or a refrain. It is a real pattern in the text, but it is not a topic, and it is shown here as what it is.
The verses
Closest to the group’s centre first.
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ نُوحٍ فِى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
"Peace upon Noah among the worlds."
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ
"Peace upon Abraham."
وَسَلَٰمٌ عَلَى ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ
And peace upon the messengers.
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ
"Peace upon Moses and Aaron."
وَسَلَٰمٌ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ وُلِدَ وَيَوْمَ يَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ يُبْعَثُ حَيًّا
And peace be upon him the day he was born and the day he dies and the day he is raised alive.
وَٱلسَّلَٰمُ عَلَىَّ يَوْمَ وُلِدتُّ وَيَوْمَ أَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ أُبْعَثُ حَيًّا
And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive."
سَلَٰمٌ عَلَىٰٓ إِلْ يَاسِينَ
"Peace upon Elias."
Where it falls
These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in As-Saaffaat.
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.