And We have certainly beautified the nearest heaven with lamps [i.e., stars] and have made [from] them what is thrown at the devils1714 and have prepared for them the punishment of the Blaze.
Notes
[1714] Thereby driving them from the heavens and preventing them from eavesdropping. See 72:8-9.
Verse 5 of Surah Al-Mulk (67:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 562 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
And verily I adorned the nearest sky to the earth with shining stars, making them shoot and repelling with them the satans with them who try to eavesdrop. I have also prepared for them a blazing fire in the afterlife.
We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and have made them as missiles to stone the devils2, and We have prepared for them the punishment of the Blazing Fire.
Notes
[2] Preventing them thereby from eavesdropping in the heavens. See 72:8-10.
And indeed We have adorned the nearest heaven with lamps2, and We have made such lamps (as) missiles to drive away the Shayâtîn (devils), and have prepared for them the torment of the blazing Fire.
Notes
[2] (V.67:5) See the footnote of (V.6:97) and (V.85:1).
And verily We have beautified the world's heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame.
And we have, (from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with Lamps, and We have made such (Lamps) (as) missiles to drive away the Evil Ones, and have prepared for them the Penalty of the Blazing Fire.
And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning.
And indeed We have already adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made them outcast (meteorites) for Ash-Shayatin (The ever-vicious "ones", i.e., the devils) and We have readied for them the torment of the Blaze.
