Where is Surah 37:6–10 found?

Surah 37:6–10; 67:5 (Quran). Translation quoted: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930).

Quran · Surah 37:6–10; 67:5

Stars as missiles

ReferenceSurah 37:6–10; 67:5

Written610–632 CE

SetTimeless

Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets; With security from every froward devil. They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side… Save him who snatcheth a fragment, and there pursueth him a piercing flame.

Translation: Pickthall, 1930 · About the translator

Read it literally

'The Highest Chiefs' hold a council. A defense layer in the lowest heaven fires on anything that tries to eavesdrop. Some fragments get through anyway.

What scholars say

Classical commentators read shooting stars as these missiles.

From the sky Looks like technology Council of gods

Stars as missiles

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