Verse. 4682

٥١ - ٱلذَّارِيَات

51 - Adh-Dhariyat

وَالسَّمَاۗءِ ذَاتِ الْحُبُكِ۝۷ۙ
Waalssamai thati alhubuki

English

Ahmed Ali

The heavens webbed-with-tracks is witness

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (by the heaven full of paths) this is another oath; allah swears by the seemly and beautiful heaven that has paths; it is also said that full of paths means: it has stars, the sun, the moon; and it is also said that full of paths means: full of waves like those of water upon being hit by the wind, or like the waves of sand upon being blown by the wind, or like the waves of curly hair or the waves of armour made of iron; and it is also said this refers to the seven heaven by which allah has sworn.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and by the heaven with all its tracks (hubuk is the plural of habīka, similar [in pattern and meaning] to turuq, tarīqa, ‘paths’), that is to say, [by the heaven] that is created with tracks similar to tracks made in the sand,