the Quran mentioning the eight colors

There are 8 colors mentioned in the Quran.

  • Red (Arabic الأحمر) occurs in the Quran only once (35:27)

  • Yellow, (Arabic الأصفر) occurs total five times in the Quran (2:69, 30:51, 39:21, 57:20, 77:33).

  • Blue (Arabic الأزرق) is used once in the Quran, in an allegory about the hereafter. 20:102

  • Green (Arabic الأخضر) appears throughout the Quran as a color that symbolises life (6:99, 12:43, 12:46, 18:31, 22:63, 36:80, 55:76, 76:21).

  • Pink appears in the Quran to denote the alarming colour of a disintegrated sky (55:37).

  • Dark Green occurs in the Quran only once (55:64). As the colour of dense foliage, it allegorically portrays the thriving life of eternal garden.

  • White  (Arabic الأبيض) appears in the Quran mainly to describe states of minds reflecting light of spiritual awareness (2:187, 7:108, 20:22, 26:33, 27:12, 28:32, 35:27, 37:46, 37:49; 3:106, 3:107, 12:84).

  • Black (Arabic الأسود) occurs to describe states of minds lacking light of spiritual awareness (2:187, 16:58, 35:27, 39:60, 43:17, 3:106).