نجم

Dictionary definitions on Arabic Almanac


Appears 13 times in the Quran.

  1. And He it is Who has made the stars for you that you might follow the right way thereby in the darkness of the land and the sea; truly We have made plain the communications for a people who know.

  2. Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods of time, and He is firm in power; He throws the veil of night over the day, which it pursues incessantly; and (He created) the sun and the moon and the stars, made subservient by His command; surely His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

  3. And He has made subservient for you the night and the day and the sun and the moon, and the stars are made subservient by His commandment; most surely there are signs in this for a people who ponder;

  4. And landmarks; and by the stars they find the right way.

  5. Do you not see that Allah is He, Whom obeys whoever is in the heavens and whoever is in the earth, and the sun and the moon and the stars, and the mountains and the trees, and the animals and many of the people; and many there are against whom chastisement has become necessary; and whomsoever Allah abases, there is none who can make him honorable; surely Allah does what He pleases.

  6. Then he looked at the stars, looking up once,

  7. And in the night, give Him glory too, and at the setting of the stars.

  8. I swear by the star when it goes down.

  9. And the herbs and the trees do prostrate (to Him).

  10. But nay! I swear by the falling of stars;

  11. So when the stars are made to lose their light,

  12. And when the stars darken,

  13. The star of piercing brightness;