At-Taariq

سُورَةُ الطَّارِقِ

Surah 86 17 آية Meccan

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

عن سورة At-Taariq

Meccan · 17 آية

المحاور الرئيسية

Divine watchfulness over every soul, the power of the returning star, resurrection through divine creative power

الأهمية والفضل

At-Tariq (The Morning Star) is a short but theologically dense surah focused on the theme of divine oversight. The oath by the "piercing star" (al-tariq) — interpreted as the morning star whose light pierces the darkness — leads to the declaration that "there is no soul but that it has over it a protector." This establishes the Islamic belief that every human being is constantly in divine view, with no action or thought unobserved.

شرح آية محورية

Ayah 5–7 ("Then let man observe from what he was created. He was created from a fluid, ejected, emerging from between the backbone and the ribs") are used by scholars as a Quranic argument for resurrection: the God who created a human being from such an insignificant origin is clearly capable of recreating that same being after death. The biological reference points (backbone and ribs as the region of reproductive organs in ancient anatomy) also established the Quran's engagement with human physiology.

الأعمال المرتبطة

The surah's image of divine protection (at-tariq as a guardian) connects to the Islamic understanding of the recording angels and divine oversight. The closing affirmation that the Quran is "decisive speech and not amusement" (86:13–14) is used in Islamic literary criticism to establish that the Quran's rhetorical excellence serves a communicative and ethical purpose — not aesthetic enjoyment alone.

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ 1

86:1

By the sky and the night comer -

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ 2

86:2

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

النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ 3

86:3

It is the piercing star -

إِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ 4

86:4

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

فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْإِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ 5

86:5

So let man observe from what he was created.

خُلِقَ مِنْ مَاءٍ دَافِقٍ 6

86:6

He was created from a fluid, ejected,

يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ 7

86:7

Emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.

إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ 8

86:8

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

يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ 9

86:9

The Day when secrets will be put on trial,

فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ 10