وَأَنَّهُ هُوَ رَبُّ الشِّعْرَىٰ
Sahih International
And that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius.Some of the Arab tribes worshipped Sirius, because they regarded it as a source of good or bad luck for them. Allah mentions Sirius in particular in order to refute their false notion and to affirm that He is the Lord and Master of Sirius as well, although He is the Creator, Master and Lord of all the stars, heavens and the earth. God didn't say that Sirius is a single star at all !
Shiera is the brightest star in the heavens, which is also known by the names of Mirzam al-Jawza, al-Kalb al-Akbar, al-Kalb al-Jabbar, Ash-Shira al-Abur, etc.
In English it is called Sirius, Dog Star and Canis Majoris. It is 23 times as luminous as the Sun, but as it shines over eight light-years away from the earth, it appears to be smaller and less luminous than the Sun. The Egyptians worshiped it, for it made its appearance at about the time of the season when the annual floods were beginning in the Nile; the Egyptians believed that Sirius caused the Nile floods. The pagan Arabs also held the belief that this star influenced human destinies. That is why they worshiped it as a deity, and the Bani Khuzaah, the neighboring tribe of the Quraish, were particularly well-known for being its devotees.
What the naked eye perceives as a single star is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main-sequence star of spectral type A1V, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, called Sirius B.
The image of Sirius A and Sirius B taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The white dwarf can be seen to the lower left.
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