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Surah Nuh (Noah ) 71 : 16

وَجَعَلَ ٱلْقَمَرَ فِيهِنَّ نُورًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلشَّمْسَ سِرَاجًا

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And made the moon therein a [reflected] light and made the sun a burning lamp?

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Word Arabic word
(71:16:1)
wajaʿala
And made
(71:16:2)
l-qamara
the moon
(71:16:3)
(71:16:4)
nūran
a light
(71:16:5)
wajaʿala
and made
(71:16:6)
l-shamsa
the sun
(71:16:7)
sirājan
a lamp

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Explantory Notes 

We continue with Noah and his untiring efforts. We see him trying to turn people's attentions to the signs pointing to God, be these from within themselves or in the world around them. He wonders at their carelessness and rudeness:

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This also is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed at Makkah, but the internal evidence of its subject matter shows that it was sent down in the period when opposition to the Prophet’s message of Islam by the disbelievers of Makkah had grown very strong and active.

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