الطارق Aṭ-Ṭāriq The Night Star | |
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Classification | Meccan |
Other names | The Bright Star, The Night-Star, That Which Comes in the Night, The Nightly Visitant, The Night-comer |
Position | Juzʼ 30 |
No. of verses | 17 |
No. of words | 61 |
No. of letters | 254 |
Quran |
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Aṭ-Ṭāriq[1] (Arabic: الطارق, "the Morning Star", "Nightcomer"), is the eighty-sixth sura of the Quran, with 17 ayat or verses. Muslims believe this chapter was revealed in Mecca at a time when the Disbelievers were employing all sorts of devices and plans to defeat and frustrate the message of the Quran and Muhammad.