2 Preface وَإِذَا النُّجومُ انكَدَرَتYusuf AliWhen the stars1 fall, losing their lustre;(2) Next after the sun, we can derive faint lights from the innumerable stars in the firmament. For all the ages of which we have any record, these stars have remained fixed. Nothing can be more fixed: yet they can and will fail.