Tafsir alJalalayn Sura التكوير Ayah No. 16

the movers, the setters, that is, the five planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury (takhnusu means ‘they sink away’ during their orbit, whereas we see stars at the end of their zodiacal course return to the start; taknisu means that they enter their kinās, ‘hideaway’, in other words, they retreat into their setting-places);

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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