فُصِّلَت : ١٢

  • فَقَضَىٰهُنَّ Then He completed them
  • سَبۡعَ (as) seven
  • سَمَٰوَاتٖ heavens
  • فِي in
  • يَوۡمَيۡنِ two periods
  • وَأَوۡحَىٰ and He revealed
  • فِي in
  • كُلِّ each
  • سَمَآءٍ heaven
  • أَمۡرَهَاۚ its affair
  • وَزَيَّنَّا And We adorned
  • ٱلسَّمَآءَ the heaven
  • ٱلدُّنۡيَا the nearest
  • بِمَصَٰبِيحَ with lamps
  • وَحِفۡظٗاۚ and (to) guard
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • تَقۡدِيرُ (is the) Decree
  • ٱلۡعَزِيزِ (of) the All-Mighty
  • ٱلۡعَلِيمِ the All-Knower
And He completed them as seven heavens within two days and inspired [i.e., made known] in each heaven its command. And We adorned the nearest heaven with lamps [i.e., stars, for beauty] and as protection.1 That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
Footnotes
1 From the devils who attempt to steal information from the angels.
Then He ordained them (the [suffixed] pronoun refers back to al-samaa', 'the sky', because it [al-samaa'] actually denotes that plural [sense] to which it will lead [in the following clause), in other words, He made them to be, seven skies in two days - Thursday and Friday. He completed them in the last hour thereof, in which He created Adam - which is why He does not say ﷺaa'an, 'evenly' here [as He did earlier]; what is said here concords with those verse in which it is stated that the skies and the earth were created in six days; and in each sky He revealed its commandment', that to which He commanded those in it [to follow], in the way of obedience and worship. And We adorned the lowest sky with lamps, with stars, and [this was also] to guard them (hifzan is in the accusative because of its implicit verbal sense, in other words, 'We guarded it against the devils lest they try to listen therein [to the angels] by stealth with meteors'). That is the ordaining of the Mighty, in His kingdom, the Knower, of His creatures.