Text of verse 55:5
ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ ٥
Transliteration
al-shamsu wal-qamaru biḥus'bānin
Translation
The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation,
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Ar-Rahman, Verse 5
سورة الرحمن، الآية ٥
Verse 5 of Surah Ar-Rahman (55:5), a Medinan surah, is in juz 27, on page 531 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 5
Al-Mukhtasar
He fixed a perfectly calculated course for the sun and moon, to teach people the number of years and calculation.
Other translations of verse 5
The sun and the moon follow their precise courses,
The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning).
The sun and the moon are made punctual.
The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed;
The sun and the moon follow a reckoning.
The sun and the moon (run) to all-precisely reckoned (courses),
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Verses related to verse 5
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
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Ya-Sin 36:40
لَا ٱلشَّمْسُ يَنۢبَغِى لَهَآ أَن تُدْرِكَ ٱلْقَمَرَ وَلَا ٱلَّيْلُ سَابِقُ ٱلنَّهَارِ وَكُلٌّ فِى فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ
It is not allowable [i.e., possible] for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming.
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Al-An’am 6:96
فَالِقُ ٱلْإِصْبَاحِ وَجَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ سَكَنًا وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ حُسْبَانًا ذَٰلِكَ تَقْدِيرُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْعَلِيمِ
[He is] the cleaver of daybreak and has made the night for rest and the sun and moon for calculation. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.