Tafsir of Surat al-Tariq: The saying of Allah the Exalted: "And the sky and the star that comes down."

The student: And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.
As for what follows, this is a lesson from the Noble Prophet’s Mosque by His Eminence Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen, for the day of Wednesday, corresponding to the night of the 18th to the 19th of the month of Rabi’ al-Akhir, in the year 1416 of the Hijri calendar, and the lesson is after the Maghrib prayer.

The Shaykh : What Allah willed, how are you? Good, praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, increase the volume, and upon his family and his Companions, and those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
The student: Raise the volume.

The Shaykh : As for what follows, the voice is weak, my brother, increase the volume, raise the volume.
The student: He raises it, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : As for what follows, on this night, the night of Thursday, the nineteenth of the month of Rabi’ al-Thani, we gather with our brothers in the Noble Prophet’s Mosque after the Maghrib prayer, and on the chair of our brother Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Jazairi, and a believer to a believer is like a single building, its parts strengthening one another.
We are now speaking about what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has made easy of the tafsir of the surah that we heard in the recitation of our imam in the Maghrib prayer, which is the saying of Allah the Exalted: Allah the Exalted swears by the sky, and the sky here may be intended to mean everything that is above you, everything that is above you is a sky, and it may be intended to mean the seven heavens, in which case it is a singular used to mean the genus, encompassing all the heavens. And whichever it is, Allah the Exalted did not swear by anything except that it is a sign of His signs, Mighty and Majestic. These vast heavens, with their wide expanse, high construction, and strong structure, Allah the Mighty and Majestic built them, as He said: And He said: And beware, my brother, of believing that His saying: means that Allah built the sky with His hand. No, for Allah the Mighty and Majestic said: So Allah the Exalted created the heavens by the word, not with His hand, Exalted and Majestic is He. Therefore, he who thinks that His saying: is the plural of hand is mistaken; rather, it is the verbal noun of the verb ya’idu (to strengthen), and the verbal noun is what? A’id, like ba’a (to sell) and the verbal noun is bay’ (sale). Therefore, Allah did not attribute it to Himself as He did in the saying of Allah the Exalted: And on this basis, it is not permissible for us to believe that Allah created the sky with His hand or with His hands, ever. Rather, a’id is the verbal noun of the verb, stand up, what is the verbal noun? Please, rest.
The student: ... .

The Shaykh : Here, a’id is the verbal noun of what? What is the verb? Rest. It appears that you have not studied grammar.
The student: Ya’idu, yu’idu.

The Shaykh : The verbal noun of ya’idu, yu’idu, and the verbal noun is a’id, like...
The student: Ba’a, yabī’u, bay’an.

The Shaykh : Like ba’a, yabī’u, bay’an, like kīla, wait, my brother, like kīla.
The student: Kīl.

The Shaykh : Like kīla, yakilu, kīl. Good, rest. So these great heavens are worthy of Allah swearing by them, as He said: So the waw here is a letter of oath, is conjoined to the sky, and the conjoined has the ruling of the thing it is conjoined to. And on this basis, Allah the Exalted swore by the star that comes down, and what is the star that comes down?