Quran search, find any ayah

Type a word and every ayah that contains it appears, with the Arabic, the transliteration, the Sahih International translation and a play button. Type an ayah number such as 2:255 or a range such as 36:1-12 to go straight to it, or pick a topic to see the best-known ayat on it first, followed by every other ayah that mentions it.

Four ways to search

• English words. Words match from their start, so forgiv finds forgive, forgiving and forgiveness. Several words find ayat that contain all of them. Put a phrase in quotes to find it exactly.
• Transliteration. Type the Arabic sounds the way you would spell them. Long vowels, doubled letters and apostrophes are ignored, so raheem and rahim, or alhamdulillah and al-hamdu lillaah, find the same ayat. This is how to find an ayah you have heard but cannot place.
• Arabic. Type with or without harakat. Alef forms, ta marbuta and alef maqsura are treated as the same letter.
• Ayah numbers and surah names. 2:255, 18:10, 112 or Yasin.

Why some Arabic words need a second try

The Quran is written in the Uthmani script, which spells a few words differently from modern Arabic. صلاة (salah) is written ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ, and some long vowels are a small alef above the letter. The search reads those small alefs both ways, so most words are found either way. If a modern spelling finds nothing, try the word without its long vowels, or search the transliteration instead.

A translation is not the Quran

An English search finds the words a translator chose, not the Arabic itself. One Arabic word can be translated several ways, and different words can share one English word. For a study of how a word is used, search the Arabic too, and read each ayah in its place in the surah. Every result links to the ayah on its surah page, where you can read what comes before and after.

The whole Quran text loads on your first search: about 700 KB compressed, so it takes a moment on a slow connection. After that every search is instant.