ٱلصَّافَّات : ٦

  • إِنَّا Indeed We
  • زَيَّنَّا [We] adorned
  • ٱلسَّمَآءَ the heaven
  • ٱلدُّنۡيَا nearest
  • بِزِينَةٍ with an adornment
  • ٱلۡكَوَاكِبِ (of) the stars
Indeed, We have adorned the nearest heaven with an adornment of stars
We have indeed adorned the lowest sky with an adornment, the stars, that is to say, [adorned] with their light or with them [the stars] (the genitive annexation [bi-zeenati'l-kawaakib] is for explication; similarly [explicative] is the reading of bi-zeenatin, 'with an adornment', with nunation, [the adornment] explained as being 'the stars');