How do I memorise similar verses without mixing them up?

Gather every place a sequence occurs, as this page shows them; memorise the word that differs together with a marker for its place; then recite each place in full context. Repeating the shared wording alone increases the confusion.

How do I tell two similar verses apart?

Open both places and compare the word that directly follows the shared part, then read the verse before each one. The preceding context is usually the cue that tells you which place you are in.

Why do some short surahs show few passages?

Internal repetition needs many verses, so a short surah may repeat nothing inside itself. That is why the "shared with other surahs" section matters most in Juz Amma, where verse endings are close across surahs.

Is this a complete list of all similar passages?

No. Each section shows the most useful sequences up to a limit, and the comparison is based on wording only. Similarity of meaning or of order does not appear here.

The Holy Quran

Similar passages in the Quran

Word sequences repeated inside each surah - openings, endings and middles - ordered by how often they recur, to help memorisation and revision.

Juz Amma similar passages

Surahs An-Naba to An-Nas compared together - the most memorised and most easily confused part.

Choose a surah

Passages are extracted automatically by comparing a temporary normalised copy of the verses (diacritics and pause marks ignored), and shown in the original Uthmani script. The stored text is never modified, and these are wording aids for revision, not interpretation.

Using the similar-passages pages to steady memorisation

Similar passages (mutashabihat) are verses whose wording is close enough that a reciter slips from one place into another without noticing. These pages gather those sequences, ordered by how many places they occur in, so you meet them before they trip you.

The four sections

Ayah openings: verses that begin with the same words, the most common cause of jumping between verses.
Ayah endings: repeated closings, which lead a reciter into whatever follows the ending elsewhere.
Passages inside ayahs: repetition in the middle rather than at either edge, the subtlest kind.
Shared with other surahs: wording from this surah that recurs elsewhere in the Quran, the usual source of error when revising several surahs in one sitting.

A practical revision routine

Start with the most repeated sequences: each one shows its number of occurrences.
Open each occurrence and read the distinguishing word that follows the shared part. Memorisation settles on the difference, not on the shared wording.
Attach a marker to every place: surah order, position on the page, or the meaning that precedes it.
Recite one sequence across all its places in turn, then read each place in full context.

What this tool does not do

Extraction is automatic, comparing a temporary normalised copy of the verses while always displaying the Uthmani script. So a listed sequence may not actually confuse you, and similarity of meaning without similarity of wording will not appear. This is a wording aid, not commentary; for meaning see the sources and methodology page.

After the similar passages

Once the wording is settled, reading the full surah with recitation helps, and ayah search reaches any wording by part of a word or by its root.

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