Tafsir al-Jalalayn — at-Tariq 86:10

whereat he the one who denies resurrection will have neither strength to defend himself against chastisement nor any helper to avert it from him.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — at-Tariq 86:1

By the heaven and the night-visitor! al-tāriq actually denotes any thing that comes by night including stars because they come out at night.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — at-Tariq 86:2

And what will tell you what the night-visitor is? mā’l-tāriq is a subject and predicate standing as the second object of the verb adrā ‘tell’; and what comes after the first mā ‘what’ is the predicate thereof of this first mā — this statement emphasises the magnificence of the ‘night-visitor’ which is explained in what […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — at-Tariq 86:3

The piercing the brilliant because of its piercing the darkness with its light star! meaning the constellation Pleiades; or it refers to all stars the response to the oath follows

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — at-Tariq 86:4

Over every soul there is a keeper if read la-mā then mā is extra and in is softened in place of the hardened form with its subject omitted that is to say innahu; the lām is a particle for separation; if read lammā then in is for negation and lammā means illā ‘except that’ — […]

Kashani Tafsir — at-Tariq 86:4

Over every soul there is a guardian. This is the answer to the oath, “By heaven and the night star!” [86:1]. He swears an oath that there is no one without a guardian but that he has a guardian and defender. This is just what He says in another place: “Surely there are over you […]

Kashani Tafsir — at-Tariq 86:5

So let man consider of what he was created. Let the human individual look carefully at himself: From what was he created and why was he cre- ated? God created a face that is suited for prostration, eyes suited for taking heed, a body suited for service, a heart suited for recognition, a secret core […]

Kashani Tafsir — at-Tariq 86:6

He was created of gushing water, emerging from between the loins and the chest. When the human individual was created, he was created from water thrown and spilled, a water that came forth from the back of the man and from the bones within the woman’s breast. First he was a sperm drop, which God […]