In this short snippet from our Deeper Look Series: Surah Al-Mursalat, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan reflects on Allah’s words in Surah Al-Waqi’ah, {فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَوَٰقِعِ ٱلنُّجُومِ} (56:75), drawing a parallel between the Quranic imagery and what we know about light, time and the cosmos. The light we see from a distant star may have traveled billions of years before reaching us — meaning the star itself could have died long ago. Allah does not say He swears by the stars themselves, but by their p