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Surah 53 · Makkah · 62 āyāt
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النجم
A Makkan surah that opens with an oath by the star as it sets, then recounts the Prophet's ﷺ direct encounter with the angel Jibrīl — twice, including at Sidrat al-Muntahā on the night of the Miʿrāj. It refutes the worship of the goddesses al-Lāt, al-ʿUzzā and Manāt as empty names, affirms that no soul bears another's burden, that man attains only what he strives for, and closes with a call to prostrate to the One who alone creates, gives life and death, and brings the final Hour. It is the first surah the Prophet ﷺ recited publicly at the Kaʿbah, and every listener — believer, polytheist, jinn and man — prostrated with him.
Why it was revealed
Revealed at a time when Quraysh had grown accustomed to hearing the Qurʾān only privately. The Prophet ﷺ stood among them at the Kaʿbah and recited an-Najm aloud to its end, at which point he prostrated, and the entire gathering — Muslims, polytheists, jinn, even those who had been hostile — prostrated with him, overcome by its power.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3887; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 164; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 177; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576; al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān on 53:19; al-Ṭabarī notes the weakness of the chains; Ibn Kathīr on 53:13–18; Ibn Kathīr on 53:19–23; Ibn Kathīr on 53:5–7; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 53:1–4
Ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما said: 'The Prophet ﷺ prostrated in Sūrat an-Najm, and the Muslims, the polytheists, the jinn and mankind all prostrated with him.'
Cited toṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071
In the Prophet's ﷺ life
The star oath and the truthful Messenger
Allah swears by the star as it sets that the Companion (Muhammad ﷺ) has neither strayed nor erred, and that he does not speak from his own desire — it is only revelation sent to him.
Recalled in āyah 1, 2, 3, 4
وَٱلنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ
By the star when it descends,
مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ
Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,
وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ
Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.
إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌ يُوحَىٰ
It is not but a revelation revealed,
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- Madd — 6 vowels (lāzim)
- Madd — 4 or 5 vowels (wājib)
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- Qalqalah
- Ikhfāʾ
- Ikhfāʾ shafawī
- Idghām shafawī
- Idghām with ghunnah
- Idghām without ghunnah
- Idghām mutajānisayn
- Idghām mutaqāribayn
- Iqlāb
- Hamzat al-waṣl
- Lām shamsiyyah
- Silent letter
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A truthful Messenger and a real encounter
Allah swears by the setting star that the Prophet ﷺ has not strayed, nor speaks from desire — the Qurʾān is pure revelation. He describes the Prophet's ﷺ vision of Jibrīl in his true form, first near Makkah and again at Sidrat al-Muntahā during the Miʿrāj, where his sight neither wavered nor overstepped what he was shown.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ Muslim 177 (via al-Nawawī's commentary); al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
وَٱلنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ
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By the star when it descends,
مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ
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Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,
وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ
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Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.
إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌ يُوحَىٰ
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It is not but a revelation revealed,
عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَىٰ
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Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] -
ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَٱسْتَوَىٰ
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One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form
وَهُوَ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ
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While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.
ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّىٰ
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Then he approached and descended
فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ
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And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.
فَأَوْحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ مَآ أَوْحَىٰ
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And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed [i.e., conveyed].
مَا كَذَبَ ٱلْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰٓ
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The heart did not lie [about] what it saw.
وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَىٰ
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And he certainly saw him in another descent
عِندَ سِدْرَةِ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ
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At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -
إِذْ يَغْشَى ٱلسِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَىٰ
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When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it].
مَا زَاغَ ٱلْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ
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The sight [of the Prophet (ﷺ)] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit].
لَقَدْ رَأَىٰ مِنْ ءَايَـٰتِ رَبِّهِ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰٓ
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He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.
From the tafsīr
The oath by the star (al-najm) refers to its setting, a sight Arabs knew well; Allah swears by it to affirm that His Companion — Muhammad ﷺ — has neither gone astray in belief nor erred in action.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Ibn Masʿūd narrated that the Prophet ﷺ saw Jibrīl with six hundred wings filling the horizon — the 'one of great power' referred to in āyah 5.
'Mā zāgha al-baṣaru wa mā ṭaghā' (the sight did not swerve, nor did it exceed its limit) — a description of perfect composure and honesty in reporting an overwhelming vision.
Cited toal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
Key takeaways
- The Qurʾān is not the Prophet's ﷺ own words but revelation conveyed exactly as given.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ Muslim 177 (via al-Nawawī's commentary); al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- A true vision of the unseen leaves the witness composed, not exaggerating or embellishing what he saw.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ Muslim 177 (via al-Nawawī's commentary); al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The Miʿrāj establishes that the Prophet ﷺ was shown realities beyond ordinary human reach — 'he certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.'
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ Muslim 177 (via al-Nawawī's commentary); al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
How does knowing the Qurʾān is verified, not invented, change how you receive it?
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Where did the Prophet ﷺ see Jibrīl a second time in his true form?
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What does Allah's oath by the star affirm about the Prophet ﷺ?
Empty names: refuting al-Lāt, al-ʿUzzā and Manāt
The surah names the three chief idols of Quraysh directly and dismantles their claim: they are mere names invented by men, carrying no divine sanction, and it is absurd to assign daughters to Allah — whom the polytheists disliked for themselves — while claiming sons. Their worship rests on nothing but conjecture and desire.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱللَّـٰتَ وَٱلْعُزَّىٰ
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So have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?
وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰٓ
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And Manāt, the third - the other one?
أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ
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Is the male for you and for Him the female?
تِلْكَ إِذًا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَىٰٓ
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That, then, is an unjust division.
إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّآ أَسْمَآءٌ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَآ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُم مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَـٰنٍ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهْوَى ٱلْأَنفُسُ ۖ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّن رَّبِّهِمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ
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They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allāh has sent down no authority. They follow not except assumption and what [their] souls desire, and there has already come to them from their Lord guidance.
From the tafsīr
'They are but names you have named — you and your forefathers — for which Allah has sent down no authority.' The idols have no reality beyond the label given to them.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Al-Qurṭubī explicitly states that the report claiming the Prophet ﷺ once spoke words in praise of these idols (the so-called gharānīq narrative) is not established through any sound chain and is rejected by the verifying scholars; it contradicts the very words of this surah.
Cited toal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
Ibn Kathīr likewise notes the chains of this story are all interrupted or weak, and that no reliable narration supports it — the surah's own text refutes the idols in the plainest terms, leaving no room for such a claim.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report
Key takeaways
- Naming something divine does not make it so; authority to worship must come from Allah, not custom.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The Qurʾān holds Quraysh to their own inconsistency — disliking daughters for themselves while ascribing them to Allah.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Weak or fabricated reports, however famous, must be tested against sound chains and against the Qurʾān's own clear text — and rejected when they fail both, as scholars have done with the gharānīq story.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
What 'names' do people today treat as authorities without ever asking for their basis?
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Is the gharānīq story considered authentic?
Question 2 of 2
How does āyah 23 describe the three idols?
No soul bears another's burden
The surah dismantles wishful thinking — that intercession or lineage saves without effort — and states foundational principles later echoed in the scrolls of Ibrāhīm and Mūsā: no bearer of burdens bears another's burden, and man will have nothing except what he strove for, and his effort will be seen and fully recompensed.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
أَلَّا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ
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That no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another
وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ
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And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives
وَأَنَّ سَعْيَهُۥ سَوْفَ يُرَىٰ
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And that his effort is going to be seen -
ثُمَّ يُجْزَىٰهُ ٱلْجَزَآءَ ٱلْأَوْفَىٰ
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Then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense -
From the tafsīr
'Alla taziru wāziratun wizra ukhrā' (no bearer of burdens bears another's burden) is stated in the earlier scrolls of Ibrāhīm and Mūsā, showing the continuity of this principle across every revealed law.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
'Wa an laysa lil-insāni illā mā saʿā' (man will have nothing but what he strove for) refutes the notion that ancestry, wishful hope, or another's status can substitute for one's own deeds.
Cited toal-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
The angels are not female nor do they intercede by anyone's mere wish; intercession before Allah occurs only by His permission for one He is pleased with, not through unearned patronage.
Cited toal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
Key takeaways
- Salvation cannot be inherited or wished for; it is earned through sincere striving.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- This is not a new teaching — it is confirmed as consistent across the scrolls of Ibrāhīm and the Torah of Mūsā.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Effort (saʿy) is seen by Allah and will be shown in full on the Day of Recompense.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
Where might you be relying on hope or lineage instead of actual striving?
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What false hope does this principle correct?
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The surah says this principle appears in whose scrolls?
The Creator of life, death, and every pair
A sweeping list of Allah's exclusive powers: to Him is the final return; He causes laughter and weeping, death and life; He creates the two mates, male and female, from a drop emitted; the second creation (resurrection) is upon Him; He is Lord of Sirius (al-Shiʿrā), and He destroyed ʿĀd, Thamūd, the people of Nūḥ, and overturned the cities of Lūṭ's people.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ
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And that it is He who makes [one] laugh and weep
وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَمَاتَ وَأَحْيَا
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And that it is He who causes death and gives life
وَأَنَّهُۥ خَلَقَ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ
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And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -
وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ
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And that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius.
From the tafsīr
Mentioning Sirius (al-Shiʿrā) responds to those Arabs who worshipped this star; the surah affirms that Allah alone is its Lord, not the star itself.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
The destroyed nations — ʿĀd (the earlier ʿĀd), Thamūd, the people of Nūḥ, and the overturned cities of Lūṭ's people — are cited as historical proof that Allah's power over life and death is not abstract but demonstrated in real events.
Cited toal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
Key takeaways
- Every pair in creation — male and female — testifies to a deliberate Creator, not chance.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Worship directed at celestial bodies like Sirius is corrected: Allah alone is their Lord.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Past nations destroyed for rejecting their prophets are warnings, not mere stories.
Drawn fromal-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
Reflect
Which of Allah's 'exclusive' powers listed here do people quietly attribute to luck or nature instead?
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Why is Sirius (al-Shiʿrā) mentioned in āyah 49?
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What past nations does the surah mention as warnings?
The approaching Hour and the call to prostrate
The surah closes by asking which favour of one's Lord could be disputed, warning that the Approaching Hour (al-āzifah) draws near and none besides Allah can remove it, and rebuking those who laugh at the Qurʾān instead of weeping, who are heedless while it is recited to them. It ends with the command: prostrate to Allah and worship.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
أَزِفَتِ ٱلْـَٔازِفَةُ
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The Approaching Day has approached.
لَيْسَ لَهَا مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ كَاشِفَةٌ
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Of it, [from those] besides Allāh, there is no remover.
أَفَمِنْ هَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ
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Then at this statement do you wonder?
وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ
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And you laugh and do not weep
وَأَنتُمْ سَـٰمِدُونَ
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While you are proudly sporting?
فَٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِلَّهِ وَٱعْبُدُوا۟ ۩
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So prostrate to Allāh and worship [Him].
From the tafsīr
Al-āzifah (the Approaching [Hour]) is the Day of Judgement, named for its nearness; no one besides Allah can disclose or avert it.
Cited toIbn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
'A-fa-min hādhā al-ḥadīthi taʿjabūn' — the rebuke to those who found the Qurʾān a matter of amusement (laughing) rather than reflection (weeping), showing hardened hearts.
Cited toal-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
The final command, 'so prostrate to Allah and worship,' was acted upon immediately — the Prophet ﷺ prostrated on reciting it, and the entire gathering, believers and polytheists alike, prostrated with him.
Cited toṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576
Key takeaways
- The nearness of the Hour should provoke reflection, not amusement.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- A heart that can hear the Qurʾān and only laugh is a warning sign in itself.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- The surah's structure is echoed in its ending: revelation, refutation, accountability and Creation all converge on a single act — prostration.
Drawn fromṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1071; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 576; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān; Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
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What does al-āzifah refer to in āyah 57?
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What followed the recitation of 'so prostrate to Allah and worship'?
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و ح ي
āyāt 4, 10to reveal, to inspire swiftly and privately
- وَحْيrevelation
- أَوْحَىٰhe revealed
- يُوحَىٰit is revealed
ر أ ي
āyāt 11, 12, 13, 18, 19to see, to perceive
- رَأَىٰhe saw
- رُؤْيَاvision
- بَصَرsight
س ع ي
āyāt 39, 40to strive, to exert effort toward a goal
- سَعَىٰhe strove
- سَعْيeffort, striving
- مَسْعَىٰthe place/act of striving
و ز ر
āyāt 38to bear a heavy load, sin as a burden
- وِزْرburden, sin
- وَازِرَةone who bears a burden
- وَزِيرminister (one who bears responsibility)
خ ل ق
āyāt 45to create, to bring into being with due measure
- خَلَقَhe created
- خَلْقcreation
- خَٰلِقCreator
س ج د
āyāt 62to prostrate, to place the forehead down in submission
- سَجَدَhe prostrated
- سُجُودprostration
- مَسْجِدplace of prostration, mosque
ع ب د
āyāt 10, 62to serve, to worship in humility
- عَبْدservant, slave
- عِبَادَةworship
- اعْبُدُوا۟worship! (command)
ه و ي
āyāt 1, 3to fall, to descend; also whim or desire
- هَوَىٰit fell / desire
- هَاوِيَةthe abyss (of Hell)
- هَوَانdisgrace, lowliness
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- The Qurʾān is verified revelation, not the Prophet's ﷺ own invention — confirmed by an oath and by his composed reporting of what he saw.
- Weak or sensational reports must be tested against sound chains and the Qurʾān's own words — fame does not make a narration true.
- Names given to false objects of worship carry no authority unless Allah sends it down.
- No one inherits or borrows another's record; every soul is bound to its own striving.
- Every pair in creation, male and female, points to a deliberate Creator.
- Past nations destroyed for denial are warnings meant to be reflected upon, not distant tales.
- The Hour is described as ever 'approaching' — nearness, not distance, is the honest description of the unseen future.
- The proper response to revelation is humility and prostration, not amusement or heedlessness.
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Sources behind Sūrah An-Najm
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Ḥadīth6
Tafsīr18
- al-Qurṭubī on 53:19
- al-Qurṭubī on 53:50–53
- al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān
- al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān on 53:19
- al-Ṭabarī notes the weakness of the chains
- al-Ṭabarī on 53:39
- al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:1–4
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:13–18
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:19–23
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:23
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:36–41
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:49
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:5–7
- Ibn Kathīr on 53:57
- Ibn Kathīr, commenting on the gharānīq report
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm
- Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm on 53:1–4
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An-Najm · No soul bears another's burden
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