The Stars (Al-Najm)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the star when it sets: 1 Your companion hath not gone astray, nor hath he erred. 2 nor does he speak out of desire. 3 It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired, 4 taught him by one terrible in power, 5 One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form 6 And he is in the highest part of the horizon. 7 then drew near and suspended hung, 8 two bows' length away, or nearer, 9 When He revealed to His votary what He revealed. 10 His heart lies not of what he saw; 11 what, will you dispute with him what he sees? 12 Indeed he saw him a second time, 13 Near Sidrat-ul-Muntaha [lote-tree of the utmost boundary (beyond which none can pass)], 14 Near it is the Paradise of Abode. 15 When the Lote-tree was covered over with what it was covered over; 16 The sight (of Prophet Muhammad SAW) turned not aside (right or left), nor it transgressed beyond (the) limit (ordained for it). 17 Certainly he saw of the greatest signs of his Lord. 18 Have you considered Lat and 'Uzza, 19 and about the third deity, al-Manat? 20 Do sons belong to you and daughters to God? 21 This is certainly an unjust apportioning. 22 They are but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which Allah hath sent down no authority. They follow but their fancy, and that which pleaseth their souls; whereas assuredly there hath come unto them from their Lord the guidance. 23 Or is there for man whatever he wishes? 24 despite the fact that [both] the life to come and this present [one] belong to God [alone]? 25