Adh-Dhariyat Verse 7

˹And˺ by the heavens in their marvellous design![[ Or “By the heavens with their marvellous orbits.”]]

By the heaven with its pathways,

By heaven with all its tracks

by the sky with its pathways,

By the heaven full of paths.

By the Sky with (its) numerous Paths,

By the heaven with its numerous forms:

The heavens webbed-with-tracks is witness

And by oath of the decorated heaven.

By the sky full of adornment [with stars],

By the heaven full of braided pathways (for the movement of angels and celestial objects, for the sending down of God’s commands, and for the ascent of the diverse supplications of conscious beings by speech or act or need):

And I call to witness the sky with (its) numerous orbits (of celestial bodies),

And the sky/space (owner) of the paths/courses (movements/orbits) .

And by oath of the decorated heaven.

1 swear by the heaven (sky) full of paths (orbits).

By the heaven full of paths,

And the Judgment will surely come to pass.

I swear by the heaven full of ways.

By the heaven full of paths,

By the beautiful heavens,

By the heaven with its passages,

By the heaven full of Hubuk,

by the heaven full of tracks,

By the sky that is woven.

And by the heaven with all its tracks (hubuk is the plural of habka, similar [in pattern and meaning] to turuq, tarqa, `paths'), that is to say, [by the heaven] that is created with tracks similar to tracks made in the sand,

By the heaven full of Hubuk,

Ibn Abbas said;

"Full of beauty, grace, magnificence and perfection."

Mujahid, Ikrimah, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Abu Malik, Abu Salih, As-Suddi, Qatadah, Atiyah Al-`Awfi, Ar-Rabi bin Anas and others said similarly.

Ad-Dahhak, Al-Minhal bin `Amr and others said,

"The meandering of the water, sand and plants when the wind passes over them; carving paths out of them, that is the Hubuk."

All of these sayings return to the same meaning, that of beauty and complexity. The sky is high above us, clear yet thick, firmly structured, spacious and graceful, beautified with stars such as the sun and orbiting planets such as the moon and the planets of the solar system.
The Differing Claims of the Idolators

Allah the Exalted said,

إِنَّكُمْ لَفِي قَوْلٍ مُّخْتَلِفٍ