Surah information

Name

سُورَةُ الطَّارِقِ

English name

At-Taariq

Translation

The Morning Star

Number

86

Ayahs

17

Revelation

Meccan

Translations

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

1

وَٱلسَّمَاۤءِ وَٱلطَّارِقِ 

CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!

2

وَمَاۤ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ 

And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?

3

ٱلنَّجۡمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ 

It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness:

4

إِن كُلُّ نَفۡسࣲ لَّمَّا عَلَیۡهَا حَافِظࣱ 

[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.

5

فَلۡیَنظُرِ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ 

LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:

6

خُلِقَ مِن مَّاۤءࣲ دَافِقࣲ 

he has been created out of a seminal fluid

7

یَخۡرُجُ مِنۢ بَیۡنِ ٱلصُّلۡبِ وَٱلتَّرَاۤئِبِ 

issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].

8

إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ رَجۡعِهِۦ لَقَادِرࣱ 

Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]

9

یَوۡمَ تُبۡلَى ٱلسَّرَاۤئِرُ 

on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare,

10

فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن قُوَّةࣲ وَلَا نَاصِرࣲ 

and [man] will have neither strength nor helper!