Surah At-Taariq (The Morning Star)

17 Verse(s) • Surah number 86 • Meccan

وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ


1. By the sky and the night comer -

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ


2. And what can make you know what is the night comer?

النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ


3. It is the piercing star -

إِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ


4. There is no soul but that it has over it a protector.

فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْإِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ


5. So let man observe from what he was created.

خُلِقَ مِنْ مَاءٍ دَافِقٍ


6. He was created from a fluid, ejected,

يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ


7. Emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.

إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ


8. Indeed, Allah, to return him [to life], is Able.

يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ


9. The Day when secrets will be put on trial,

فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ


10. Then man will have no power or any helper.