Verse 17 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:17), a Medinan surah, is in juz 27, on page 532 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 17
Al-Mukhtasar
Lord of the sun’s two points of rising and its two points of setting in winter and summer.
[He is] Lord of the two sunrises and Lord of the two sunsets4.
Notes
[4] i.e., the points of sunrise in the east and sunset in the west in both summer and winter.
(He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter).
Lord of the two Easts, and Lord of the two Wests!
(He is) Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests:
Lord of the East and Lord of the West.
The Lord of the two easts and The Lord of the two wests.
And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas [i.e., bodies of water], one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.
"O company of jinn and mankind, did there not come to you messengers from among you, relating to you My verses and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" They will say, "We bear witness against ourselves"; and the worldly life had deluded them, and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers.
And not alike are the two seas [i.e., bodies of water]. One is fresh and sweet, palatable for drinking, and one is salty and bitter. And from each you eat tender meat and extract ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships plowing through [them] that you might seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful.