Then He increased its terror by explaining it after having obscured it once again by His saying, the Exalted: "The piercing star." This means the blazing, high, luminous one, as if it pierces the darkness with its light and penetrates it. It is said: "I pierce your fire for the kindler," or it pierces the heavens with its light, revealing what is behind it, or the devil pierces with its fire when it steals a hearing. The intended meaning is the type or the known one by which it is pierced, which is Saturn. He first expressed it with a general description, then explained it with what is specific to it, magnifying its status due to its high place.