Al-Jalalayn

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We have indeed adorned the lowest heaven with an adornment the stars that is to say adorned with their light or with them the stars the genitive annexation bi-zīnati’l-kawākib is for explication; similarly explicative is the reading of bi-zīnatin ‘with an adornment’ with nunation the adornment explained as being ‘the stars’;

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and to guard wa-hifzan is in the accusative because of an implied verb that is to say ‘We have guarded it with meteors’ from every min kulli is semantically connected to the implied verb any rebellious devil who is a transgressor in rebellion against obedience.

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They namely the devils lā yasma‘ūna this is the beginning of a new sentence cannot listen in — this ‘listening’ of theirs represents that faculty with which they memorise what they hear — on the High Council the angels in the heavens the normally transitive verb al-samā‘ is complemented with the preposition ilā ‘to’ here ‘in on’ because it includes the additional sense of ‘paying attention’ while listening; a variant reading has yassamma‘una which is actually yatasamma‘ūna the tā’ have been assimilated with the sīn for they the devils are pelted with flames from every side from the remotest regions of the heavens

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to repel them duhūran is a verbal noun from daharahu meaning ‘he repelled him driving him away’; it is an object denoting reason and theirs in the Hereafter is an everlasting chastisement;

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except him who snatches a fragment al-khatfa is the verbal noun that is to say ‘that one time’; the exceptive clause refers to the subject of the verb yasma‘ūna in other words ‘the only devil that is able to listen is the one that hears a word from the angels and snatches it away quickly’ and who is then pursued by a piercing flame shihāb is a meteor that pierces him or burns him or robs him of his senses.