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Surah 86

At-Taariq

The Morning Star

17 VersesMeccan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلطَّارِقِ

English Translation

CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!

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Ayah 2

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ

English Translation

And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?

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Ayah 3

ٱلنَّجْمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ

English Translation

It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness:

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Ayah 4

إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌۭ

English Translation

[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.

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Ayah 5

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ

English Translation

LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:

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Ayah 6

خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٍۢ دَافِقٍۢ

English Translation

he has been created out of a seminal fluid

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Ayah 7

يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ

English Translation

issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].

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Ayah 8

إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِۦ لَقَادِرٌۭ

English Translation

Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]

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Ayah 9

يَوْمَ تُبْلَى ٱلسَّرَآئِرُ

English Translation

on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare,

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Ayah 10

فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن قُوَّةٍۢ وَلَا نَاصِرٍۢ

English Translation

and [man] will have neither strength nor helper!

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Ayah 11

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلرَّجْعِ

English Translation

Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,

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Ayah 12

وَٱلْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ ٱلصَّدْعِ

English Translation

and the earth, bursting forth with plants!

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Ayah 13

إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلٌۭ فَصْلٌۭ

English Translation

BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,

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Ayah 14

وَمَا هُوَ بِٱلْهَزْلِ

English Translation

and is no idle tale.

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Ayah 15

إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًۭا

English Translation

Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth];

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Ayah 16

وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًۭا

English Translation

but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.

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Ayah 17

فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا

English Translation

Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while.

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