At-Tariq Verse 11

By the sky with its recurring cycles,

By the sky and its recurring rain,

By heaven of the returning rain,

By the sky and its recurring rain,

By the heaven which returneth,

By the Firmament which returns (in its round),

By the heaven with its recurring cycle of rain,

So I call to witness the rain-producing sky,

By oath of the sky from which comes down the rain.

By the resurgent heaven,

I swear by the heaven ever-revolving (with whatever is in it and recurring patterns of rainfall),

I call to witness the clouds that rain over and over again,

And the sky/space that of the rain after rain/benefit

By oath of the sky from which comes down the rain.

By the Firmament which returns in its rounds

By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

And the earth opening (with herbage)!

I swear by the raingiving heavens,

By the heaven which giveth the returning rain,

By the rotating heavens

By the sky with its returning rain,

By the sky which gives rain, again and again.

By the heavens, ever-revolving,

By the sky that returns.

By the heaven of returns, [of] the rain that returns time and again,

Swearing to the Truthfulness of the Qur'an and the Failure of Those Who oppose it

وَالسَّمَاء ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ




By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

Ibn Abbas said, "Ar-raj` means rain."

It has also been narrated from him that he said,

"It means the clouds that contain rain."

He also said,
وَالسَّمَأءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ
(By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

"This means that it rains and then it rains (again)."

Qatadah said,

"It returns the sustenance of the servants (creatures) every year. Were it not for this, they would all be destroyed and so would their cattle."

وَالاْاَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ

By the heaven and what it returns of condensed water vapour as rain and what it reflects of the various kinds of waves