An-Najm 53:16
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When It Was Covered
إِذۡ يَغۡشَى ٱلسِّدۡرَةَ مَا يَغۡشَىٰ ١٦
When that which shroudeth did enshroud the lote-tree.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered it.
Insight
Elmalılı relates Anas’s report from the hadiths of the Ascension: what covered the Lote Tree was of indescribable beauty.
Reflect
Attribute to Allah a beauty you cannot describe.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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