English - Chapter 53 - An-Najm

By the star when it sets

Your companion [the Prophet] has neither strayed nor is he deluded

Nor does he speak out of his own desire

It is but a revelation sent down [to him]

He was taught by [an angel of] mighty power

and of great perfection, who manifested himself [in his true form]

when he was on the higher horizon

Then he approached [the Prophet] and descended

until he was only two bow-lengths away or even closer

Then he revealed to His slave what he had to reveal

The [Prophet’s] heart did not deny what he saw

Do you dispute with him concerning what he saw

He certainly saw him a second time

at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary [in the seventh heaven]

near which is the Garden of Abode

when the Lote Tree was overwhelmed with [divine] splendors

His gaze did not wander, nor did it look beyond the limit

He certainly saw some of the greatest signs of his Lord

Have you [O disbelievers] thought about [the idols of] al-Lāt and al-‘Uzzā

and Manāt, the third one as well

Do you choose for yourselves males and for Him females

That is then an unfair division

These [idols] are no more than names you and your forefathers have made up, for which Allah has not sent down any authority. They follow nothing but conjecture and what their souls desire, although there has come to them guidance from their Lord

Is it that man can get whatever he wishes for

Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and this world

How many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will be of no avail except after Allah’s permission to whom He wills and pleases

Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter give the angels female names

They have no knowledge about it. They only follow conjecture, but conjecture is of no avail against the truth

So pay no heed to those who turn away from Our message and who only seek the life of this world

That is the limit of their knowledge. Indeed, your Lord knows best who has strayed from His Way, and He knows best who is guided

To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth, so that He may recompense the evildoers for what they did, and reward those who do good with the best reward

those who avoid major sins and shameful acts, except for minor lapses. Indeed, your Lord is ample in forgiveness. He knows you best, as He created you from the earth and when you were fetuses in the wombs of your mothers. So do not claim purity for yourselves, for He knows best who is truly righteous

who gave a little, and then stopped

Does he have knowledge of the unseen, so he has insight

Or has he not been informed of what is in the Scriptures of Moses

and of Abraham, who fulfilled his duty

That no bearer of burden will bear the burden of another

and that man will not receive except what he strives for

and that his efforts will be examined

then he will be recompensed in full

and that to your Lord is the final return

and that He is the One Who makes people laugh and weep

and that He is the One Who causes death and gives life

and that He created the pairs, male and female

from an emitted drop of sperm

and it is upon Him to bring about the second creation

And He is the One Who enriches and bestows wealth

and that He is the Lord of Sirius [a star worshiped before Islam]

And that He destroyed the earlier ‘Ād [people of Hūd]

and Thamūd [people of Sālih], sparing none

and [He destroyed] the people of Noah before them; they were indeed more wicked and more rebellious

And He toppled the cities [of Sodom and Gomorrah] upside down

and they were utterly covered [by stones]

Then which of the favors of your Lord do you doubt

This [Prophet] is a warner like the earlier warners

The imminent Hour has drawn near

none but Allah can disclose it

Do you find this discourse astonishing

and you laugh [at it] and not weep

while persisting in heedlessness

So prostrate to Allah and worship [Him]