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●By the star when it descends,
53:2 مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ
●Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,
53:3 وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ
●Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination. 53:4 إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌ يُوحَىٰ
●It is not but a revelation revealed,
53:5 عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَىٰ
●Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] -
●One of soundness. 1 And he rose to [his] true form 2
53:7 وَهُوَ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ
●While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon. 1
●Then he approached and descended
53:9 فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ
— And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer. 53:10 فَأَوْحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ مَآ أَوْحَىٰ
— And he revealed to His Servant 1 what he revealed [i.e., conveyed]. 53:11 مَا كَذَبَ ٱلْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰٓ
— The heart 1 did not lie [about] what it saw. 53:12 أَفَتُمَـٰرُونَهُۥ عَلَىٰ مَا يَرَىٰ
●So will you dispute with him over what he saw? 53:13 وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَىٰ
●And he certainly saw him in another descent 1
53:14 عِندَ سِدْرَةِ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ
●At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -
53:15 عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰٓ
●Near it is the Garden of Refuge [i.e., Paradise] -
53:16 إِذْ يَغْشَى ٱلسِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَىٰ
●When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it]. 1
53:17 مَا زَاغَ ٱلْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ
— The sight [of the Prophet (ﷺ)] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit]. 53:18 لَقَدْ رَأَىٰ مِنْ ءَايَـٰتِ رَبِّهِ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰٓ
— He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord. 53:19 أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱللَّـٰتَ وَٱلْعُزَّىٰ
— So have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā? 53:20 وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰٓ
●And Manāt, the third - the other one? 1
53:21 أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ
●Is the male for you and for Him the female? 53:22 تِلْكَ إِذًا قِسْمَةٌ ضِيزَىٰٓ
●That, then, is an unjust division. 1
53:23 إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّآ أَسْمَآءٌ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَآ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُم مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَـٰنٍ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهْوَى ٱلْأَنفُسُ ۖ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّن رَّبِّهِمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ
— They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allāh has sent down no authority. They follow not except assumption and what [their] souls desire, and there has already come to them from their Lord guidance. 53:24 أَمْ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ مَا تَمَنَّىٰ
●Or is there for man whatever he wishes?
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