The Quran’s 114 surahs are quoted by chapter and verse — 2:255, the Verse of the Throne, may be the most referenced single verse in the world — yet finding the Arabic text and a trustworthy translation side by side usually means heavy apps or cluttered sites. This Quran verse lookup keeps it simple: choose any surah and read it in the original Arabic, set in the Uthmani script and right-aligned as it should be, with Muhammad Asad’s celebrated English translation directly beneath each ayah. Or type a single ayah number to jump straight to one verse. The page opens with an ayah of the day from a fixed rotation of beloved verses, and everything is fetched live from the free AlQuran Cloud API.
Two ways to read
The surah menu lists all 114 chapters with their transliterated names, English meanings and ayah counts — from Al-Faatiha, the seven-verse Opening, to An-Naas, the closing chapter on mankind. Choose one and press Read whole surah to load the complete chapter: every ayah appears in its own card, Arabic first, translation beneath, numbered so you can follow along with a printed mushaf, a lecture or a recitation. Short surahs from the final juz load instantly and read beautifully on a phone. For a single famous verse — the Verse of the Throne (2:255), the closing words of Al-Baqara (2:286), the promise of ease in Ash-Sharh (94:5) — pick the surah, type the ayah number, and press Look up ayah. The tool checks your number against the surah’s real ayah count, so a slip shows a helpful message instead of a blank page.
About the text and translation
The Arabic is the Quran text in the Uthmani script, served by the AlQuran Cloud API (edition quran-uthmani), displayed in a large traditional typeface, right-to-left, as Arabic is read. The English translation is Muhammad Asad’s The Message of the Qur’an, one of the most respected English renderings of the twentieth century — careful, literary and widely used in study. A translation is always an interpretation, and serious study compares several; for daily reading, quotation and understanding, Asad is an excellent companion. The Spanish twin of this page, linked below, shows the same Arabic with Asad’s translation in Spanish. Each ayah card keeps the Arabic and its translation together, which is the layout students and new readers find easiest: the eye can rest on the original, then drop to the meaning.
The ayah of the day
When the page opens, it loads one verse from a rotation of sixteen much-loved ayahs — verses of comfort (94:5, “with hardship comes ease”), trust (65:3), remembrance (13:28, “in the remembrance of God do hearts find rest”) and gratitude (14:7). The choice is fixed by the date, so every visitor reads the same ayah on the same day; come back tomorrow for the next. Many readers pair it with our Prayer Times tool: check the day’s prayer schedule, then read the ayah of the day while you wait. Small, regular contact with the text is how reading habits — and understanding — are built.
Quran Verse Lookup — common questions
Is the Arabic text complete? Yes — the full Quran, all 114 surahs, is available through the API, ayah by ayah, in the Uthmani script edition.
Which translation is used? Muhammad Asad’s English translation (edition en.asad). The Spanish version of this page uses the Spanish Asad translation. Other translations exist for study; this tool keeps one respected translation for clarity.
How do references like 2:255 work? The first number is the surah (chapter), the second is the ayah (verse) within it. Surah 2, ayah 255 is the Verse of the Throne.
Is it free? Completely — no account, no limits, and no downloads.
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