Text of verse 37:88
فَنَظَرَ نَظْرَةً فِى ٱلنُّجُومِ ٨٨
Transliteration
fanaẓara naẓratan fī l-nujūmi
Translation
And he cast a look at the stars
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 88
سورة الصافات، الآية ٨٨
Verse 88 of Surah As-Saffat (37:88), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 449 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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Tafsir of verse 88
Al-Mukhtasar
So Abraham took a glance at the stars, hatching a plan to come out of having to go out with his people.
Other translations of verse 88
He then cast a glance at the stars20,
Notes
[20] His people had faith in astrology, so Abraham pretended to do the same to show them that he was not able to join them at their pagan feast and to remain in their temple of idols, while he was planning to destroy their idols.
Then he cast a glance at the stars,
And he glanced a glance at the stars
Then did he cast a glance at the Stars.
Then he looked at the stars, looking up once,
So he looked a look (i.e., gazed at the stars) at the stars,