سورة التكوير

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): إِذَا الشَّمْسُ کُوِّرَتْ [When the sun is covered] means that it becomes dark and gloomy.

Ibn Abbas (may Allah have mercy on him): إِذَا الشَّمْسُ کُوِّرَتْ [When the sun is covered] means that its light goes away, it becomes dark and vanishes.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: While we were all walking, I had my hand in the hand of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) and we were both looking at the sun until it set. I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! Where does it set?" He said: "In the sky. Then it is raised up from one heaven to another until it reaches the seventh heaven, which is beneath the Throne. Then it falls down in prostration, and all the angels appointed over it prostrate along with it. Then it says: 'O my Lord! What is Your command — from where should I rise? Should I rise from the place of my setting or from the place of my rising?' And this is the statement of Allah the Mighty and Majestic: وَ الشَّمْسُ تَجْرِی لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ لَّهَا ذَلِکَ تَقْدِیرُ الْعَزِیزِ الْعَلِیمِ [And the sun (also is a sign for them) which runs continuously towards its resting place; this is the decree of the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing]. (Ya-Sin/38) The meaning is the arrangement of the Mighty and Powerful Lord in His creation; the Lord who is Aware of His creation." He said: "Then Jibra'il brings a garment of light from the light of the Throne for the sun, according to the measure of the hours of the day and the length of it in summer, the shortness of it in winter, and what is between these measures in autumn and spring. So the sun puts on that garment just as a man puts on his clothes, and it goes into the atmosphere of the sky and rises from its place of rising." The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) says: "It is as if I now see the sun having been detained for three nights, and it does not shine. Then they do not clothe it with the garment of the sun, and it is ordered to rise from the west. That is why Allah the Mighty and Majestic says: إِذَا الشَّمْسُ کُوِّرَتْ * وَ إِذَا النُّجُومُ انکَدَرَتْ [When the sun is covered * And when the stars darken]."