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English - Chapter 53 - An-Najm
Translation by Aisha Bewley — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah An-Najm 53:1
By the star when it descends
Verse 2 — Surah An-Najm 53:2
your companion is not misguided or misled
Verse 3 — Surah An-Najm 53:3
nor does he speak from whim
Verse 4 — Surah An-Najm 53:4
It is nothing but Revelation revealed
Verse 5 — Surah An-Najm 53:5
taught him by one immensely strong
Verse 6 — Surah An-Najm 53:6
possessing power and splendour. He stood there stationary —
Verse 7 — Surah An-Najm 53:7
there on the highest horizon
Verse 8 — Surah An-Najm 53:8
Then he drew near and hung suspended
Verse 9 — Surah An-Najm 53:9
He was two bow-lengths away or even closer
Verse 10 — Surah An-Najm 53:10
Then He revealed to His slave what He revealed
Verse 11 — Surah An-Najm 53:11
His heart did not lie about what he saw
Verse 12 — Surah An-Najm 53:12
What! Do you dispute with him about what he saw
Verse 13 — Surah An-Najm 53:13
He saw him again another time
Verse 14 — Surah An-Najm 53:14
by the Lote-tree of the Final Limit
Verse 15 — Surah An-Najm 53:15
beside which is the Garden of Refuge
Verse 16 — Surah An-Najm 53:16
when that which covered the Lote-tree covered it
Verse 17 — Surah An-Najm 53:17
His eye did not waver nor did he look away
Verse 18 — Surah An-Najm 53:18
He saw some of the Greatest Signs of his Lord
Verse 19 — Surah An-Najm 53:19
Have you really considered al-Lat and al-´Uzza
Verse 20 — Surah An-Najm 53:20
and Manat, the third, the other one
Verse 21 — Surah An-Najm 53:21
Do you have males and He females
Verse 22 — Surah An-Najm 53:22
That is a most unfair division
Verse 23 — Surah An-Najm 53:23
They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given, you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for them. They are following nothing but conjecture and what their own selves desire. And that when guidance has reached them from their Lord
Verse 24 — Surah An-Najm 53:24
Shall man then have whatever he covets
Verse 25 — Surah An-Najm 53:25
The last and the first belong to Allah
Verse 26 — Surah An-Najm 53:26
And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession is of no benefit at all until Allah has authorised those He wills and is pleased with them
Verse 27 — Surah An-Najm 53:27
Those who do not have iman in the Next World give the angels female names
Verse 28 — Surah An-Najm 53:28
They have no knowledge of this. They are only following conjecture. Conjecture is of no avail whatever against the truth
Verse 29 — Surah An-Najm 53:29
So turn away from him who turns away from Our remembrance and desires nothing but the life of this world
Verse 30 — Surah An-Najm 53:30
That is as far as their knowledge extends. Your Lord knows best those who are misguided from His Way and He knows best those who are guided
Verse 31 — Surah An-Najm 53:31
Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth belongs to Allah so that He can repay those who do evil for what they did and repay those who do good with the Very Best
Verse 32 — Surah An-Najm 53:32
To whoever avoids the major wrong actions and indecencies — except for minor lapses — truly your Lord is vast in forgiveness. He has most knowledge of you when He first produced you from the earth, and when you were embryos in your mothers´ wombs. So do not claim purity for yourselves. He knows best those who have taqwa
Verse 33 — Surah An-Najm 53:33
Have you seen him who turns away
Verse 34 — Surah An-Najm 53:34
and gives little, and that grudgingly
Verse 35 — Surah An-Najm 53:35
Does he have knowledge of the Unseen, enabling him to see
Verse 36 — Surah An-Najm 53:36
Or has he not been informed what is in the texts of Musa
Verse 37 — Surah An-Najm 53:37
and of Ibrahim, who paid his dues in full
Verse 38 — Surah An-Najm 53:38
that no burden-bearer can bear another´s burden
Verse 39 — Surah An-Najm 53:39
that man will have nothing but what he strives for
Verse 40 — Surah An-Najm 53:40
that his striving will most certainly be seen
Verse 41 — Surah An-Najm 53:41
that he will then receive repayment of the fullest kind
Verse 42 — Surah An-Najm 53:42
that the ultimate end is with your Lord
Verse 43 — Surah An-Najm 53:43
that it is He Who brings about both laughter and tears
Verse 44 — Surah An-Najm 53:44
that it is He Who brings about both death and life
Verse 45 — Surah An-Najm 53:45
that He created the two sexes — male and female —
Verse 46 — Surah An-Najm 53:46
out of a sperm-drop when it spurted forth
Verse 47 — Surah An-Najm 53:47
that He is responsible for the second existence
Verse 48 — Surah An-Najm 53:48
that it is He Who enriches and Who satisfies
Verse 49 — Surah An-Najm 53:49
that it is He Who is the Lord of Sirius
Verse 50 — Surah An-Najm 53:50
that He destroyed ´Ad, the earlier people
Verse 51 — Surah An-Najm 53:51
and Thamud as well, sparing none of them
Verse 52 — Surah An-Najm 53:52
and the people of Nuh before — they were most unjust and exorbitant —
Verse 53 — Surah An-Najm 53:53
and the Overturned City which He turned upside down
Verse 54 — Surah An-Najm 53:54
so that what enveloped it enveloped it
Verse 55 — Surah An-Najm 53:55
Which one of your Lord´s blessings do you then dispute
Verse 56 — Surah An-Najm 53:56
This is a warning like the warnings of old
Verse 57 — Surah An-Najm 53:57
The Imminent is imminent
Verse 58 — Surah An-Najm 53:58
No one besides Allah can unveil it
Verse 59 — Surah An-Najm 53:59
Are you then amazed at this discourse
Verse 60 — Surah An-Najm 53:60
and laugh and do not cry
Verse 61 — Surah An-Najm 53:61
treating life as a game
Verse 62 — Surah An-Najm 53:62
Prostrate before Allah and worship Him