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Translation of page 526

1. 53:1

   By the star when it descends,

2. 53:2

   Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,

3. 53:3

   Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.

4. 53:4

   It is not but a revelation revealed,

5. 53:5

   Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] -

6. 53:6

   One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form

7. 53:7

   While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.

8. 53:8

   Then he approached and descended

9. 53:9

   And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.

10. 53:10

    And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed [i.e., conveyed].

11. 53:11

    The heart did not lie [about] what it saw.

12. 53:12

    So will you dispute with him over what he saw?

13. 53:13

    And he certainly saw him in another descent

14. 53:14

    At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -

15. 53:15

    Near it is the Garden of Refuge [i.e., Paradise] -

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    When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it].

17. 53:17

    The sight [of the Prophet (ﷺ)] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit].

18. 53:18

    He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.

19. 53:19

    So have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?

20. 53:20

    And Manāt, the third - the other one?

21. 53:21

    Is the male for you and for Him the female?

22. 53:22

    That, then, is an unjust division.

23. 53:23

    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.

24. 53:24

    Or is there for man whatever he wishes?

25. 53:25

    Rather, to Allāh belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].

26. 53:26

    And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will not avail at all except [only] after Allāh has permitted [it] to whom He wills and approves.