Do you know what Al-Taareq is?
Quran Talk Blog · Article · September 25, 2019
A black hole is a star that implodes upon itself puncturing a hole in the fabric of space-time. It is the darkest thing in the universe as not even light can exit its gravity once it enters its event horizon, the point of no return.
The irony is that the darkest object in the universe emits the brightest light in the observable universe by means of a quasar.
At the center of every galaxy is a super massive black hole. quasars typically occur when two galaxies collide in a cosmic collision causing each galaxies stars and planets to fall into the black hole.
The radiation the outcome of this event causes is brighter than the accumulated light of 100 billion stars. The light from a quasar is a piercing light that appears to emit perpendicular to the accretion disk of the black hole (see image below).
Sura 86 of the Quran is entitled Al-Taareq. Rashad translated this word as The Bright Star.
The word Taareq comes from the root: ط ر ق. This root in the Quran is used to mean a way, path, behavior, or conduct.
They said, “O our people, we have heard a book that was revealed after Moses, and confirms the previous scriptures. It guides to the truth; to the right (طَرِيقٍ) path.