Translation of the meanings Ayah 16 Surah Al-Hijr - English Translation - Dr. Waleed Bleyhesh Omary - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 16

وَلَقَدۡ جَعَلۡنَا فِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجٗا وَزَيَّنَّٰهَا لِلنَّٰظِرِينَ

(16) ^[3112]Verily, We have set positions^[3113] in the sky and we adorned it for the onlookers^[3114].

[3112] The ‘sign/miracle’ they were asking after, which they would still have denied, is not, by any means, the only sign that the universe is full of, but to which they are still mindless (cf. Ibn ʿAṭiyyah).
[3113] Burūj (sing, burj) is a polysemous word. Here, it means the positions of celestial bodies. The word is derived from the rise and conspicuousness of a thing; positions of celestial bodies are called burūj because they are high and clear to the sight (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Qutaybah, Gharīb al-Qur’ān, al-Iṣfahānī, al-Mufradāt). It also means towers/edifices (cf. 4: 78).
[3114] Those whose hearts are perceptive enough to be full of awe of God’s wonderful creation and are led by that to Believe in the Oneness and Ability of the Creator (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Shawkānī): “Have they not looked at the sky above them; how We have built it, adorned it and that it is ˹faultless˺ without loopholes!” (50: 6).