https://www.humanreligions.info/sura_86.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: At-Tariq
English: The Morning Star
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 85 (Al-Burooj - The Mansions of the Stars)
> Sura 87 (Al-Ala - The Most High)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 90 (Al-Balad - The City)
> Sura 54 (Al-Qamar - The Moon)
Verses: 17
| 1 | By heaven and the night-star! | For more on Sura 86:5-7 see Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 2. Biology Mistakes. |
| 2 | And what shall teach thee what is the night-star? | |
| 3 | The piercing star! | |
| 4 | Over every soul there is a watcher. | |
| 5 | So let man consider of what he was created; | |
| 6 | he was created of gushing water | |
| 7 | issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. | |
| 8 | Surely He is able to bring him back | |
| 9 | upon the day when the secrets are tried, | |
| 10 | and he shall have no strength, no helper. | |
| 11 | By heaven of the returning rain, | |
| 12 | by earth splitting with verdure, | |
| 13 | surely it is a decisive word; | |
| 14 | it is no merriment. | |
| 15 | They are devising guile, | |
| 16 | and I am devising guile. | |
| 17 | So respite the unbelievers; delay with them awhile. |