At-Tariq

Sura 86 of the Quran
الطارق
Aṭ-Ṭāriq
The Morning Star
Classification Meccan
Other names The Bright Star, The Knocker, The Pounder, The Nightcomer, The Night-Star, That Which Comes in the Night, The Nightly Visitant
Position Juzʼ 30
No. of verses 17
No. of words 61
No. of letters 254

Sūrat aṭ-Ṭāriq (Arabic: الطارق‎, “The Piercing Star”, “The Nightcomer”, literally “The Knocker”) is the eighty-sixth sura of the Qur'an with 17 ayat. Muslims believe this chapter was sent to Mohammed when he was in Mecca.

Content

In this sura, God (Allah) takes an oath by the sky and At-Tariq to say that there is an assigned watcher over every human being and all the deeds and sins done by human beings are being recorded.

Allah then asks the human beings to think about how they were created. He then goes on to say that he has created human beings from the gushing water flowing between the backbone and the ribs.

Allah then reminds the human beings about the Judgment Day, the day when all the secrets would be revealed. On that day (Judgment Day), human beings would have no power and no one would help them.

Allah then takes another oath on the heaven and the earth to say that, whatever being said here is word of Allah and must be taken very seriously.

In the last three verses of the chapter, Allah says that the non-believers are plotting a scheme but in return Allah is also planning a scheme.

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