Shooting stars
God adorned the lower heaven with lamps and made them missiles against the devils; when the stars are dimmed; and the flaming darts by which the jinn are pelted when they steal a hearing of heaven.
In the Qur'an · 12
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وَلَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجًا وَزَيَّنَّـٰهَا لِلنَّـٰظِرِينَ
And verily in the heaven we have set mansions of the stars, and We have beautified it for beholders.
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وَحَفِظْنَـٰهَا مِن كُلِّ شَيْطَـٰنٍ رَّجِيمٍ
And We have guarded it from every outcast devil,
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إِلَّا مَنِ ٱسْتَرَقَ ٱلسَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌ مُّبِينٌ
Save him who stealeth the hearing, and them doth a clear flame pursue.
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إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا ٱلسَّمَآءَ ٱلدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ ٱلْكَوَاكِبِ
Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets;
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وَحِفْظًا مِّن كُلِّ شَيْطَـٰنٍ مَّارِدٍ
With security from every froward devil.
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لَّا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْمَلَإِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِن كُلِّ جَانِبٍ
They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side,
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دُحُورًا ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ
Outcast, and theirs is a perpetual torment;
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إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ ٱلْخَطْفَةَ فَأَتْبَعَهُۥ شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ
Save him who snatcheth a fragment, and there pursueth him a piercing flame.
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وَلَقَدْ زَيَّنَّا ٱلسَّمَآءَ ٱلدُّنْيَا بِمَصَـٰبِيحَ وَجَعَلْنَـٰهَا رُجُومًا لِّلشَّيَـٰطِينِ ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابَ ٱلسَّعِيرِ
And 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.
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وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَـٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًا شَدِيدًا وَشُهُبًا
And (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.
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وَأَنَّا كُنَّا نَقْعُدُ مِنْهَا مَقَـٰعِدَ لِلسَّمْعِ ۖ فَمَن يَسْتَمِعِ ٱلْـَٔانَ يَجِدْ لَهُۥ شِهَابًا رَّصَدًا
And we used to sit on places (high) therein to listen. But he who listeneth now findeth a flame in wait for him;
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وَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ ٱنكَدَرَتْ
And when the stars fall,