Surah Al-Burooj

Its purpose is to indicate the power over the intended splitting, which is clearly stated at the end of it, regarding the enjoyment of the righteous and the punishment of the wretched by whom He punished in this world. It is from those whom it is not possible, by nature, for their punishment to be that except from Allah alone. This serves as consolation for the hearts of the believers and a means of strengthening them against the harm of the disbelievers. And upon that which encompasses everything in power and knowledge, (the Most Gracious) who has encompassed the creatures with justice and forbearance, (the Most Merciful) who has specifically granted His allies the completion of His favor upon them in essence, just as He has manifested it in form.

For what He concluded with the reward of the believer and the punishment of the disbeliever, and the mockery of Him after mentioning that He, glorified and exalted is He, knows what the enemies conceal of plotting and what they seek of harm against the allies. He warned them of what they cannot bear. They had indeed tortured the believers with various types of torment and strived to tempt those whom they could reach among them. They exceeded in constraining them until they forced them to the Shi'b of Abu Talib and other strongholds in the land, and to part from their families and children. This began with what He inflicted upon the people of tyranny, in a clear manner that this infliction from Him, glorified and exalted is He, is certain. It is known that those who have passed have surpassed what these people have done to being cast into the fire. And that the people of faith remained steadfast. This is for the consolation of the believers and to strengthen them, and for the warning of the disbelievers, to humiliate them and to weaken them. So he said, swearing for the sake of their denial and their actions in continuing in enmity against the party of Allah. The denier acted as if Allah would take vengeance upon them with what indicates the completeness of His power on the Day of Resurrection: "By the heaven" meaning the high one, the utmost in perfection, "with constellations" meaning the abodes of the wandering stars which Allah, the Exalted, has placed in arrangements. In some of them He has established the power of causing growth and revival through planting, and in others the power of nurturing likewise, and in others the power of harvesting through hidden causes which He, glorified and exalted is He, has established that you do not see. However, due to your familiarity with it, you have come to perceive through experience matters that indicate the completeness of power. Some of you attributed it to nature due to the short-sightedness in the causes of causes and the fatigue of thought from penetrating to the end of what the minds can reach. So they exchanged gratitude for disbelief, and they used the signs as evidence for the opposite of what they indicate due to the rigidity of the mind and the reflection of thought. The intended abodes are the twelve: (the Ram - the Bull - the Twins - the Crab - the Lion - the Virgin - the Scales - the Scorpion - the Archer - the Goat - the Water Bearer - the Fish) and the sun passes through them in the year, or they are the twenty-eight that the moon passes through in the month. These are the abodes of the sun, these twelve, with the moon's course in each of them for two and a third days. So that is twenty-eight [days] and it continues for two nights, so that is a month. This indicates that the One who detailed the heaven in this detail and harnessed in it these stars for the interests of mankind will not leave it in vain. Rather, there must be reckoning for what he does of good and evil, which is likened to the palaces because the wandering stars descend upon them and there are in them the fixed stars and the great stars. They are called constellations for their appearance, or the gates of heaven because calamities emerge from them, and the essence of the arrangement is for the appearance.