Surah Hijr ayat 16 Tafsir Quran 15:16

﴿وَلَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا لِلنَّاظِرِينَ﴾
[ الحجر: 16]

15:16 And We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers.

And verily We have placed in the heaven constellations twelve of them Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo al-sunbula Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces which are the mansions of the seven orbiting planets Mars rules Aries and Scorpio Venus Taurus and Libra Mercury Gemini and Virgo the Moon Cancer the Sun Leo Jupiter Sagittarius and Pisces and Saturn Capricorn and Aquarius; and We have adorned it with these planets for beholders;

We established in the heavens mansions or divisions of the ecliptic to be occupied by the moon on successive days and a belt within which the apparent motions of the sun, the moon and principal planets take place - Signs of the Zodiac*- and We adorned them with qualities affording keen pleasure to the sense of sight

The Power of Allah and His Signs in the Heavens and on Earth To those who ponder, and look repeatedly at the dazzling signs and wonders that are to be seen in the creation, Allah mentions His creation of the heavens, with their immense height, and both the fixed and moving heavenly bodies with which He has adorned it.
Here, Mujahid and Qatadah said that Buruj big stars refers to the heavenly bodies.
( I say ): This is like the Ayah : تَبَارَكَ الَّذِى جَعَلَ فِى السَّمَآءِ بُرُوجاً ( Blessed be He Who has placed the big stars in the heavens. ) 25:61 `Atiyah Al-`Awfi said: "Buruj here refers to sentinel fortresses." He made the "shooting stars" to guard it against the evil devils who try to listen to information conveyed at the highest heights.
If any devil breaches it and advances hoping to listen, a clear "shooting star" comes to him and destroys him.
He may already have passed on whatever he heard before the fire hit him, to another devil below him; the latter will then take it to his friends among humans, as is stated in the Sahih.
Explaining this Ayah, Al-Bukhari reported from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said:
«إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ الْأَمْرَ فِي السَّمَاءِ ضَرَبَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا خُضْعَانًا لِقَوْلِهِ كَأَنَّهُ سِلْسِلَةٌ عَلَى صَفْوَان»
( When Allah decrees any matter in heaven, the angels beat their wings in submission to His Word, with a sound like a chain beating on a smooth rock." ) ( `Ali and other subnarrators said, "The sound reaches them." ) "When the fright leaves their ( angels' ) hearts, they ( angels ) are asked: `What did your Lord say' They respond: "The truth.
And He is the Most High, the Most Great.' So those who hope to hear something listen, and they are standing one above the other." Sufyan the narrator described them with a gesture, spreading the fingers of his right hand and holding it in such a way that the fingers were above one another.
"Sometimes the flaming fire hits one of these listeners before he is able to convey what he has heard to the one who is beneath him, and he is burned up, or sometimes the fire does not hit him until he has pit on to the one beneath him, so he brings it to the earth." Perhaps Sufyan said: "...until it reaches the earth and he puts it into the mouth of the sorcerer or fortune-teller, so that after telling a hundred lies he gets something right, and the people say, `Did he not tell us that on such and such a day such and such would happen, and we found it to be the truth among the statements which were heard from heaven."' Then Allah mentions His creation of the earth and how He spread it out, and the firm mountains, valleys, lands and sands that he has placed in it, and the plants and fruits that He causes to grow in their appropriate locations. مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مَّوْزُونٍ ( all kinds of things in due proportion. ) Ibn `Abbas said that this means with their predetermined proportions.
This was also the opinion of Sa`id bin Jubayr, `Ikrimah, Abu Malik, Mujahid, Al-Hakim bin `Utaybah, Al-Hasan bin Muhammad, Abu Salih and Qatadah. وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ فِيهَا مَعَـيِشَ ( And We have provided therein means of living, for you ) Here Allah mentions that He created the earth with different means of provisions and livelihood of all kinds. وَمَن لَّسْتُمْ لَهُ بِرَزِقِينَ ( and for those whom you provide not. ) Mujahid said, "This refers to the riding animals and the cattle." Ibn Jarir said, "They are slaves, men and women, as well as the animals and the cattle.
The meaning is that Allah, may He be exalted, is reminding them of the ways of earning provision that He has made easy for them, and of the animals that He has subjugated for them to ride and to eat, and the slaves from whom they benefit, but the provision of all of these comes from Allah alone."

(15:16) It is We Who have divided the heavens into many fortified spheres *8 for the sake of administration and adorned and decked them out fair to the beholders, *9

And We have placed within the heaven meaning

*8) In the preceding verses ( 14-15 ) it was stated that the disbelievers had become so hardened against the Qur'an that they would not have believed in it even if they had ascended the Heaven and seen with their own eyes the Signs mentioned in it.
Now in vv.16-22, some of the Signs arc being cited in order to convince there of its trurth.

" Fortified spheres " ( buruj ) are Signs of AIlah for it is not possible to pass through one sphere of the Heaven into another, as each sphere of the space has been fortified by invisible boundaries.
In this connection, it may be noted that literally the Arabic word burj means " a fortified place " but as a technical term of ancient astronomy this stood for each of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, which marked the sun's path through the heavens.
This has led some of the commentators to form the opinion that in this verse the word buruj refers to the same.
But there are some others who think that it means " planets ".
However, if we consider this word in the context of v.
19, we are led to the conclusion that probably it stands for " spheres ".

*9) " We have adorned and decked the "fortified spheres" : "We have placed a shining star or planet in each of these spheres and made them look beautiful" .
In other words, it means; "We have not made the boundless universe dismal, desolate and frightful, but so beautiful that one finds marvellous order and harmony in it everywhere, and sights therein are.
so attractive that each one of these charms hearts and minds.
This wonderful structure of the universe is a clear proof of the fact that its Creator is not only Great and All-Wise but is also a perfect Artist" .
The Qur'an has also stated this aspect of the Creator in XXXII: 7: "( AIIah is ) that God Who has created in perfect beauty everything He has created" .

 

The Power of Allah and His Signs in the Heavens and on Earth To those who ponder, and look repeatedly at the dazzling signs and wonders that are to be seen in the creation, Allah mentions His creation of the heavens, with their immense height, and both the fixed and moving heavenly bodies with which He has adorned it.
Here, Mujahid and Qatadah said that Buruj big stars refers to the heavenly bodies.
( I say ): This is like the Ayah : تَبَارَكَ الَّذِى جَعَلَ فِى السَّمَآءِ بُرُوجاً ( Blessed be He Who has placed the big stars in the heavens. ) 25:61 `Atiyah Al-`Awfi said: "Buruj here refers to sentinel fortresses." He made the "shooting stars" to guard it against the evil devils who try to listen to information conveyed at the highest heights.
If any devil breaches it and advances hoping to listen, a clear "shooting star" comes to him and destroys him.
He may already have passed on whatever he heard before the fire hit him, to another devil below him; the latter will then take it to his friends among humans, as is stated in the Sahih.
Explaining this Ayah, Al-Bukhari reported from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said: «إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ الْأَمْرَ فِي السَّمَاءِ ضَرَبَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ بِأَجْنِحَتِهَا خُضْعَانًا لِقَوْلِهِ كَأَنَّهُ سِلْسِلَةٌ عَلَى صَفْوَان» ( When Allah decrees any matter in heaven, the angels beat their wings in submission to His Word, with a sound like a chain beating on a smooth rock." ) ( `Ali and other subnarrators said, "The sound reaches them." ) "When the fright leaves their ( angels' ) hearts, they ( angels ) are asked: `What did your Lord say' They respond: "The truth.
And He is the Most High, the Most Great.' So those who hope to hear something listen, and they are standing one above the other." Sufyan the narrator described them with a gesture, spreading the fingers of his right hand and holding it in such a way that the fingers were above one another.
"Sometimes the flaming fire hits one of these listeners before he is able to convey what he has heard to the one who is beneath him, and he is burned up, or sometimes the fire does not hit him until he has pit on to the one beneath him, so he brings it to the earth." Perhaps Sufyan said: "...until it reaches the earth and he puts it into the mouth of the sorcerer or fortune-teller, so that after telling a hundred lies he gets something right, and the people say, `Did he not tell us that on such and such a day such and such would happen, and we found it to be the truth among the statements which were heard from heaven."' Then Allah mentions His creation of the earth and how He spread it out, and the firm mountains, valleys, lands and sands that he has placed in it, and the plants and fruits that He causes to grow in their appropriate locations. مِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مَّوْزُونٍ ( all kinds of things in due proportion. ) Ibn `Abbas said that this means with their predetermined proportions.
This was also the opinion of Sa`id bin Jubayr, `Ikrimah, Abu Malik, Mujahid, Al-Hakim bin `Utaybah, Al-Hasan bin Muhammad, Abu Salih and Qatadah. وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ فِيهَا مَعَـيِشَ ( And We have provided therein means of living, for you ) Here Allah mentions that He created the earth with different means of provisions and livelihood of all kinds. وَمَن لَّسْتُمْ لَهُ بِرَزِقِينَ ( and for those whom you provide not. ) Mujahid said, "This refers to the riding animals and the cattle." Ibn Jarir said, "They are slaves, men and women, as well as the animals and the cattle.
The meaning is that Allah, may He be exalted, is reminding them of the ways of earning provision that He has made easy for them, and of the animals that He has subjugated for them to ride and to eat, and the slaves from whom they benefit, but the provision of all of these comes from Allah alone."

( And verily in the heaven We have set mansions of the stars ) by means of which people are guided in the darkness of the sea or land; it is also said that this means: castles, ( and We have beautified it ) the sky by means of the stars ( for beholders ) who look at it.

And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We beautified it for the beholders.

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