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Asked
- what's meant by the seas boil over?
- are these the same moment?
We select four ayat of At-Takwir, the sun, the stars, the mountains and the seas, and ask what's meant by “the seas boil over.” The answer starts from the Arabic word, sujjirat, and sets out how al-Tabari reads it. Ibn Ashur agrees and connects it to Al-Infitar 82:3, so we open that ayah and ask whether the two describe the same moment.
Transcript
Here's At-Takwir in the reader, right beside our conversation.
Let's select the ayat about the sun, the stars, the mountains
and the seas, and ask what's meant by “the seas boil over.”
The answer goes straight to the key word, sujjirat, and its readings.
Al-Tabari records three readings, and prefers the seas filling until they overflow.
Ibn ʿĀshūr agrees, and links it to Al-Infitar 82:3.
Let's follow that link. The same reader turns to Al-Infitar 82:3.
So we ask a follow-up: are these the same moment?
The two verses appear to describe the same
upheaval, it says, seen from slightly different angles.
But neither verse fixes the order, it notes, and if sujjirat means
set on fire, they may describe different transformations.
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Whether you're new to the Quran or have studied it for years, start from whatever caught your attention. Each of these began with a selection in the reader and a question typed exactly as you see it.
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Comfortable with one hand: swipe to scroll and drag to select. Move the page buttons to whichever edge suits you, so they always rest under your thumb. Select an ayah to see its translation, or a few words to see their meanings word by word.
Meanings, word by word
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Watch · 3:09Notes to come back to
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Watch: a memory trick for two ayat · 1:28Lastmarks keep your places, the page ruler finds any page, and Back returns you to where you were before you followed a link.
Established tafsir comes first.
The point is to study what the sources say, not to have an AI agree with you. quran.ai retrieves verified Quran text, named tafsir, translations and Arabic linguistic evidence. Its grounding rules require citations, keep scholarly differences intact, and separate what a commentator said from the assistant's own summary. An answer can still be wrong; the citations and the text in front of you are there so you can check it.
Ask for Ibn Ashur, al-Qurtubi, al-Tabari, Ibn Kathir, al-Biqa‘i, al-Razi or al-Sa‘di by name, or for al-Wahidi on the occasions of revelation. Or just ask the AI to choose the mufassirin that best fit your question. They are among 20 tafsir editions, alongside 31 translations in 12 languages, word-by-word meanings and detailed Arabic grammatical analysis, sourced from quran.com through Quran Foundation.
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