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Surah Ash-Shams, Verse 5

سورة الشمس، الآية ٥

91:5 Juz 30 Hizb 60 Page 595 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 91:5

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا ۝٥

Transliteration

wal-samāi wamā banāhā

Translation

And [by] the sky and He who constructed it

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Verse 5 of Surah Ash-Shams (91:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 595 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

And He takes an oath on the sky, taking an oath on its perfect creation.

Tafsir of the whole Surah Ash-Shams

Other translations of verse 5

and by the sky and how He made it,

By the heaven and Him Who built it.

And the heaven and Him Who built it,

By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;

And the heaven and Him Who made it,

And (by) the heaven and That (i.e., The Command) which built it,

Verse 5 word by word

  1. وَٱلسَّمَآءِ wal-samāi And the heaven س م و
  2. وَمَا wamā and (He) Who
  3. بَنَىٰهَا banāhā constructed it ب ن ي

Verses related to verse 5

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

  • Adh-Dhariyat 51:47–48

    وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ …

    And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. …

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