Surah An-Najm (النجم)

The Star · Meccan · 62 ayahs · Juz 27

• 53:1

  وَٱلنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ

  By the star when it sets...

• 53:2

  مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ

  Your companion (Rasulullaah ﷺ) is neither astray nor has he lost his direction. (way)

• 53:3

  وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ

  He does not speak of his own desires.

• 53:4

  إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌ يُوحَىٰ

  (Rather) Whatever he says is revelation (which Allaah has) revealed to him (through the agency of Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام).

• 53:5

  عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَىٰ

  He has been taught by one of tremendous might (Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام)...

• 53:6

  ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَٱسْتَوَىٰ

  and who is extremely powerful (so powerful that he used only the tip of one of his 600 wings to lift the city of Sodom). (Whereas Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام usually appeared before Rasulullaah ﷺ in human form) He (Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام) appeared (before Rasulullaah ﷺ) in his original form (once in Makkah)...

• 53:7

  وَهُوَ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ

  when he (Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام) was on the highest part of the horizon (Rasulullaah ﷺ saw Jibra'eel عليه الصلاة والسلام on the eastern horizon with his six hundred wings spread out. They were so large that they even covered the western horizon. The sight was so tremendous that Rasulullaah ﷺ fell unconscious.)

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