Ayah Unpacked – Connection Map

Every connection, on one map

All 114 surahs on a ring in the order they sit in the mushaf, and every link drawn between them on the individual maps strung across it.

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Each surah map joins the verses inside one surah and then reaches outward, to a verse somewhere else that shares a word, a structure or an argument. This page collects every one of those outward links in a single picture. A circle’s position on the ring is its place in the Quran, so where a line lands is information rather than decoration, and its colour is how far it travels: gold for a neighbouring surah, violet for a throw right across the mushaf.

319connections drawn
53surahs mapped so far
77surahs touched by a line
114on the ring, drawn or not

Neighbouring surah Right across the Quran

Every surah on this map, by number of connections

53 surahs

Each of these surahs has its own mind map. The count is how many links its map draws to other surahs.

  1. Surah Al-A’la 23 connections, 19 verses
  2. Surah Al-Baqarah 22 connections, 286 verses
  3. Surah Al-Qiyamah 20 connections, 40 verses
  4. Surah Al-Infitar 19 connections, 19 verses
  5. Surah Al-Layl 18 connections, 21 verses
  6. Surah Al-Balad 17 connections, 20 verses
  7. Surah At-Takwir 16 connections, 29 verses
  8. Surah Al-Inshiqaq 16 connections, 25 verses
  9. Surah Ad-Duhaa 15 connections, 11 verses
  10. Surah An-Nas 15 connections, 6 verses
  11. Surah Ali ’Imran 14 connections, 200 verses
  12. Surah At-Takathur 14 connections, 8 verses
  13. Surah Al-’Asr 14 connections, 3 verses
  14. Surah Al-Mutaffifin 13 connections, 36 verses
  15. Surah Al-Buruj 13 connections, 22 verses
  16. Surah Al-Ghashiyah 13 connections, 26 verses
  17. Surah Al-Bayyinah 13 connections, 8 verses
  18. Surah Al-Qari’ah 13 connections, 11 verses
  19. Surah Al-Ma’arij 12 connections, 44 verses
  20. Surah An-Naba 12 connections, 40 verses
  21. Surah An-Nazi’at 12 connections, 46 verses
  22. Surah ’Abasa 12 connections, 42 verses
  23. Surah At-Tariq 12 connections, 17 verses
  24. Surah Al-’Adiyat 12 connections, 11 verses
  25. Surah Ar-Rahman 11 connections, 78 verses
  26. Surah Al-Qalam 11 connections, 52 verses
  27. Surah Al-Muddaththir 11 connections, 56 verses
  28. Surah At-Tin 11 connections, 8 verses
  29. Surah Al-’Alaq 11 connections, 19 verses
  30. Surah Al-Humazah 11 connections, 9 verses
  31. Surah Al-Kawthar 10 connections, 3 verses
  32. Surah Al-Kahf 9 connections, 110 verses
  33. Surah Al-Mulk 9 connections, 30 verses
  34. Surah Nuh 9 connections, 28 verses
  35. Surah Al-Insan 9 connections, 31 verses
  36. Surah Ash-Sharh 9 connections, 8 verses
  37. Surah Al-Qadr 9 connections, 5 verses
  38. Surah An-Nisa 8 connections, 176 verses
  39. Surah Ya-Sin 8 connections, 83 verses
  40. Surah Al-Jinn 8 connections, 28 verses
  41. Surah Ash-Shams 8 connections, 15 verses
  42. Surah Az-Zalzalah 8 connections, 8 verses
  43. Surah Al-Fil 8 connections, 5 verses
  44. Surah Quraysh 8 connections, 4 verses
  45. Surah Al-Ma’un 8 connections, 7 verses
  46. Surah An-Nasr 8 connections, 3 verses
  47. Surah Al-Masad 8 connections, 5 verses
  48. Surah Al-Ikhlas 8 connections, 4 verses
  49. Surah Al-Kafirun 7 connections, 6 verses
  50. Surah Al-Falaq 7 connections, 5 verses
  51. Surah Al-Haqqah 6 connections, 52 verses
  52. Surah Al-Anfal 5 connections, 75 verses
  53. Surah Al-Fatihah 4 connections, 7 verses

The ring behind the circles is gold where the surahs are Meccan and blue where they are Medinan. A circle’s size is how long the surah is, so al-Baqarah is the largest on the ring and the three-verse surahs the smallest; the hollow ones are surahs that have not been drawn yet but that something already reaches. Click a line or a circle to pin it, and click the background to let go.