هٰذَا

Also: ذٰلِكَ

Hādhā: this, that, those

The 12th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026

Short answer

هٰذَا (hādhā, dhālika) means "this, that, those". It appears 1,058 times in the Quran, making it the 12th most common word: about 1.37% of all the words you read.

#12most common word
1,058times in the Quran
1.37%of all the words
963ayahs it appears in

Example from the Quran

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ

Al-Balad 90:18 · Read the translation on Quran.com

It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:2.

How it appears in the Quran

The most common ways هٰذَا is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:

  • ذَٰلِكَ279×
  • هَٰذَا156×
  • أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ133×
  • كَذَٰلِكَ83×
  • فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ46×

This count includes the word on its own and when it is the main part of a short word, such as لَهُ (for him). It does not count endings attached to other words.

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Sources

  1. Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.