held together by form, not subject

Woe to the deniers

Verses featuring the repeated refrain that warns of woe on the Day of Judgment for those who deny the truth.

13
verses
13
Meccan
0
Medinan
0.99
cohesion

Cohesion is how alike these verses are to the group’s centre, from 0 to 1. This is extremely high: these verses are near-identical to one another, which usually means a refrain.

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.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:15✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:19✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:24✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:28✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:34✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:37✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:40✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:45✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:47✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mursalaat 77:49✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers.

  • Al-Mutaffifin 83:10✦ skyread

    وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Woe, that Day, to the deniers,

  • At-Tur 52:11✦ skyread

    فَوَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Then woe, that Day, to the deniers,

  • Al-Qalam 68:8✦ skyread

    فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

    Then do not obey the deniers.

Where it falls

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

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.

mercy0.03x the book

how strongly mercy sounds

judgment2.06x the book

how strongly judgment sounds

command0.42x the book

how much it instructs rather than describes

the hereafter2.43x the book

how much it points beyond this life

warmth0.07x the book

how positive the verse feels

intensity1.20x 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.