Stars as Missiles
So, ask them: Are they harder to create, or what We created?
37:11Then ask them (O Muhammad): Are they stronger as a creation, or those (others) whom we have created? Lo! We created them of plastic clay.
We have placed constellations in the sky and adorned them for those who look.
15:16And verily in the heaven we have set mansions of the stars, and We have beautified it for beholders.
37:6Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets;
67:5And verily We have beautified the world's heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame.
They too thought, as you did, that Allah would never raise anyone again.
72:7And indeed they supposed, even as ye suppose, that Allah would not raise anyone (from the dead) -
We tried to reach the heavens, but found it filled with fierce guards and blazing flames.
72:8And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur'an said): We had sought the heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors.
And We have protected them from every accursed devil.
15:17And We have guarded it from every outcast devil,
37:7With security from every froward devil.
Except one who steals a hearing, pursued by a piercing flame.
15:18Save him who stealeth the hearing, and them doth a clear flame pursue.
37:10Save him who snatcheth a fragment, and there pursueth him a piercing flame.
We used to sit in hidden stations to eavesdrop, but whoever tries now finds a flame lying in wait.
72:9And we used to sit on places (high) therein to listen. But he who listeneth now findeth a flame in wait for him;
They cannot eavesdrop on the higher assembly, they are pelted from every side
37:8They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side,
Driven away, and for them is an unending torment.
37:9Outcast, and theirs is a perpetual torment;
We do not know whether harm is intended for those on earth, or whether their Lord intends to guide them.
72:10And we know not whether harm is boded unto all who are in the earth, or whether their Lord intendeth guidance for them.
Nor is this the word of a cursed devil.
81:25Nor is this the utterance of a devil worthy to be stoned.