وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْحُبُكِ
Wassamaaa'i zaatil hubuk
By the heaven containing pathways,
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Signs in creation
51:7Ayah 160
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And by the heaven with all its tracks hubuk is the plural of habīka similar in pattern and meaning to turuq tarīqa ‘paths’ that is to say by the heaven that is created with tracks similar to tracks made in the sand
Related Hadiths
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to recite "By the heaven holding the big stars" and: "By the heaven, and At-Tariq (the night-comer, i.e. the bright star)" and similar surahs in Zuhr and 'Asr.
"For Zuhr and Asr, Allah's Messenger would recite: By the heavens, holding the Buruj and (By the heavens and At-Tariq) and similar to them."
"When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was taken on the Night Journey, he came to Sidrah Al-Muntaha, which is in the sixth heaven. That is where everything that comes up from below ends, and where everything that comes down from above, until it is taken from it. Allah says: When what covered the lote-tree did cover it!
An-Najm 53:16.
"The sins of the worst magnitude that drag one into the Fire." (An-Nihayah)
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