Discover the meaning of the term Swr (صور) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readSawwara (with shadda): wealth, and twisting; he is aswar, she is sawra'; plural: suwar. The man: to give him an embodied form; in the Quran: "It is He who forms you in the wombs as He wills: there is no deity but He, the Mighty, the Wise" (Al 'Imran 3:6); to draw it upon paper, a wall, or the like. Al-taswir: the figure; plural: tasawir; the statue; engraving the form of things or persons upon a board, a wall, or the like. Suwar of musk: its vessel. Al-siwar: the bracelet. The herd of cattle; plural: asura and siran.
The horn into which one blows; Mujahid said: the sur is like a trumpet in form.
A thing like the horn into which one blows; in the Quran: "And the trumpet is blown, and those in the heavens and those in the earth swoon away, save him whom Allah wills; then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing, looking on" (al-Zumar 39:68). Al-sura: the form; plural: suwar; in the Quran: "Allah it is who made the earth a resting-place for you and the sky a structure, and formed you and made good your forms, and provided you of the good things: that is Allah, your Lord; blessed be Allah, Lord of the worlds" (al-Mu'min 40:64); the embodied statue; in the noble hadith: "The angels enter not a house wherein is a dog or a figure", that is, a statue having no spirit; the kind; the attribute; one says: "the sura of the question is such", that is, its description.