Overview - Surah 86: at-Tariq (The Night-Comer )

Every thing in this universe is working under the protection and supervision of Allah.  The creation of human beings as well as the creation of this universe is not a joke. The creation is a serious work of Allah and so is His word, the Qur'an.

The Surah takes its name from the first Ayat, وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ "By the sky and the night comer -" [86:1]

There are 17 Ayat in this Surah.

Every thing in this universe is working under the protection and supervision of Allah.  The creation of human beings as well as the creation of this universe is not a joke. The creation is a serious work of Allah and so is His word, the Qur'an.

The Surah takes its name from the first Ayat, وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ "By the sky and the night comer -" [86:1]

There are 17 Ayat in this Surah.

It discuses two themes: first, that man has to appear before God after death; second, that the Qur’an is a decisive Word which no plan or device of the disbelievers can defeat or frustrate. First of all, the stars of the heavens have been cited as an evidence that there is nothing in the universe which may continue to exist and survive without a guardian over it. Then man has been asked to consider his own self as to how he has been brought into existence from a mere sperm drop and shaped into a living human being. Then it has been said that the God, Who has so brought him into existence, has certainly the power to create him once again, and this resurrection will be for the purpose to scrutinise all the secrets of man which remained hidden in the world. At that time, man will neither be able to escape the consequences of his deeds by his own power, nor will anyone else come to his rescue.

In conclusion, it has been pointed out that just as the falling of rain from the sky and the sprouting of plants and crops from the earth is no child’s play but a serious task, so also the truths expressed in the Qur’an are firm and unchangeable reality. The disbelievers are involved in the misunderstanding that their plans and devices will defeat the invitation of the Qur’an, but they do not know that God too is devising a plan which will bring to nought all their scheming and planning. Then in one sentence the discourse has been summed up, with a word of consolation to the Prophet and a tacit warning to the disbelievers, saying: “Have patience for a while: let the disbelievers do their utmost. Before long they will themselves realise whether they have been able to defeat the Qur’an by their scheming or the Qur’an has dominated them in the very place where they are exerting their utmost to defeat it.”

It discuses two themes: first, that man has to appear before God after death; second, that the Qur’an is a decisive Word which no plan or device of the disbelievers can defeat or frustrate. First of all, the stars of the heavens have been cited as an evidence that there is nothing in the universe which may continue to exist and survive without a guardian over it. Then man has been asked to consider his own self as to how he has been brought into existence from a mere sperm drop and shaped into a living human being. Then it has been said that the God, Who has so brought him into existence, has certainly the power to create him once again, and this resurrection will be for the purpose to scrutinise all the secrets of man which remained hidden in the world. At that time, man will neither be able to escape the consequences of his deeds by his own power, nor will anyone else come to his rescue.

In conclusion, it has been pointed out that just as the falling of rain from the sky and the sprouting of plants and crops from the earth is no child’s play but a serious task, so also the truths expressed in the Qur’an are firm and unchangeable reality. The disbelievers are involved in the misunderstanding that their plans and devices will defeat the invitation of the Qur’an, but they do not know that God too is devising a plan which will bring to nought all their scheming and planning. Then in one sentence the discourse has been summed up, with a word of consolation to the Prophet and a tacit warning to the disbelievers, saying: “Have patience for a while: let the disbelievers do their utmost. Before long they will themselves realise whether they have been able to defeat the Qur’an by their scheming or the Qur’an has dominated them in the very place where they are exerting their utmost to defeat it.”

The style of its subject matter resembles that of the earliest Surahs revealed at Makkah, but this Surah was sent down at a stage when the disbelievers of Makkah were employing all sorts of devices and plans to defeat and frustrate the message of the Qur’an and Muhammad.

The style of its subject matter resembles that of the earliest Surahs revealed at Makkah, but this Surah was sent down at a stage when the disbelievers of Makkah were employing all sorts of devices and plans to defeat and frustrate the message of the Qur’an and Muhammad.

• Allah has appointed a guardian angel over each soul.
• The Qur'an is the decisive word of Allah.

• Allah has appointed a guardian angel over each soul.
• The Qur'an is the decisive word of Allah.

• Surah 86. At-Tariq - Saad al Ghamidi  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_rpQK-DRI&index=86&list=PLhM2xiAUdw2cAqW_o3zZkbhJNw0bnaBZN
• Surah 86. At-Tariq Mahmoud Khalil Al Hussary  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXSfn2LPUs&list=PLxpAkjlGauHfMFWX22VZWOKpzjr-vH_BM&index=86
• Surah 86. At-Tariq Muhammad Al Luhaydan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aw56Rpi0rQ&index=86&list=PLxpAkjlGauHfKAYuQLRNAZomoezhfhRZe​ 
• Surah 86. At-Tariq Idris Akbar  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cal9OJ1XP0​
• Surah 86. At-Tariq  Muhammad Minshawi  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3omEMyzhHE&list=PLxpAkjlGauHdUcO_uc-8F8J2NUQRDZjPG&index=86​