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Al-Ṭāriq · The Nightly Visitor
سُورَةُ الطارق
About this chapter
Sūrat al-Ṭāriq is a Meccan surah with seventeen verses. It is said to have been the thirty-sixth surah to be revealed, after Sūrat al-Balad. There is a degree of correlation and connectedness between this surah and Sūrat al-Burūj which precedes it.
The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.
The verses
Each with the first line of its translation
Verses you have read are marked; the one you are on is shaded
- 1 By the sky, by the nightly visitor.
- 2 And what will show you what is the nightly visitor?
- 3 It is the brilliant star.
- 4 There is a guard over every soul.
- 5 So let man consider from what he was created.
- 6 He was created from an effusing fluid.
- 7 Which issues from between the loins and the breast-bones.
- 8 Indeed He is able to bring him back.
- 9 On the day when the secrets are examined.
- 10 And he shall have neither power nor helper.
- 11 By the resurgent sky.
- 12 By the furrowed earth.
- 13 It is indeed a decisive word.
- 14 And it is not a jest.
- 15 Indeed they are devising a stratagem.
- 16 And I [too] am devising a plan.
- 17 So respite the faithless; give them a gentle respite.