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Sūrah 53 · Verse 49

An-Najm 53:49

النجم

وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ

Meaning

and that He is the Lord of Sirius[17].

[17] i.e., a star worshiped by some pagans before Islam.

Meaning: English Translation - Rowwad Translation Center. Translated by the team of the Rowwad Translation Center, in cooperation with the Rabwah Dawah Association, the Islamic Content Service Association in Languages, and the IslamHouse.com website. Version 1.0.19, 2026-03-12. QuranEnc.com

Meaning

And that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius[1572]

[1572] A star worshipped by some of the pagan Arabs.

Meaning: English Translation - Noor International Center. Issued by Noor International Center. Version 1.1.2, 2025-06-24. QuranEnc.com

Meaning

49. And that He (Allâh) is the Lord of Sirius (the star which the pagan Arabs used to worship).

Meaning: English Translation - Hilali and Khan. Translated by Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan. Version 1.1.2, 2025-09-04. QuranEnc.com

Meaning

And that He it is Who is the Lord of Sirius;

Meaning: English Translation - Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), as distributed by the Tanzil Project (last update 4 September 2010). Version 2010-09-04, 2010-09-04. Tanzil

An-Najm

The Arabic is Tanzil’s text, unchanged. The meanings are their publishers’ editions, unchanged; Sabīl’s own reviewers have not yet examined them. Arabic: Tanzil Uthmani text, version 1.1. Source: tanzil.net