Surah Al-Waqi'ah 56:75
سُورَةُ الوَاقِعَةِ · Meccan · Verse 75 of 96
۞ فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَوَٰقِعِ ٱلنُّجُومِ
Translation
I swear by the positions of the stars-
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'So I swear by the positions of the stars.' Ibn Ashur and al-Biqa'i note the grandeur of the oath, 'mawaqi' an-nujum', the settings, orbits, and appointed places of the stars, the vast and precise order of the heavens, sworn upon to affirm what follows about the Qur'an. Ask yourself: God calls the entire star-strewn cosmos to witness, the immensity and exactness of the night sky invoked as the guarantee of the words He is about to praise. It tells me how weighty the thing being affirmed is: nothing less than the stars will do as its witness. And it invites me to look up and read the heavens not as scenery but as testimony, an ordered vastness pointing, as the verse says, toward the honour of revelation. When did I last let the night sky move me toward the One who set the stars in their places, and swore by them?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Biqa'i, al-Saadi.
Topics that discuss this verse
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