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Sūra 53: Najm, or the Star

Section 1 (1-25)

1. Waalnnajmi itha hawa

1. By the Star when it goes down,-


2. Ma dalla sahibukum wama ghawa

2. Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled.


3. Wama yantiqu AAani alhawa

3. Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire.


4. In huwa illa wahyun yooha

4. It is no less than inspiration sent down to him:


5. AAallamahu shadeedu alquwa

5. He was taught by one Mighty in Power,


6. Thoo mirratin faistawa

6. Endued with Wisdom: for he appeared (in stately form);


7. Wahuwa bial-ofuqi al-aAAla

7. While he was in the highest part of the horizon:


8. Thumma dana fatadalla

8. Then he approached and came closer,


9. Fakana qaba qawsayni aw adna

9. And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer;


10. Faawha ila AAabdihi ma awha

10. So did ((Allah)) convey the inspiration to His Servant- (conveyed) what He (meant) to convey.


11. Ma kathaba alfu-adu ma raa

11. The (Prophet's) (mind and) heart in no way falsified that which he saw.


12. Afatumaroonahu AAala ma yara

12. Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw?


13. Walaqad raahu nazlatan okhra

13. For indeed he saw him at a second descent,


14. AAinda sidrati almuntaha

14. Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:


15. AAindaha jannatu alma/wa

15. Near it is the Garden of Abode.


16. Ith yaghsha alssidrata ma yaghsha

16. Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)


17. Ma zagha albasaru wama tagha

17. (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!


18. Laqad raa min ayati rabbihi alkubra

18. For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!


19. Afaraaytumu allata waalAAuzza

19. Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza,


20. Wamanata alththalithata al-okhra

20. And another, the third (goddess), Manat?


21. Alakumu alththakaru walahu al-ontha

21. What! for you the male sex, and for Him, the female?


22. Tilka ithan qismatun deeza

22. Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair!


23. In hiya illa asmaon sammaytumooha antum waabaokum ma anzala Allahu biha min sultanin in yattabiAAoona illa alththanna wama tahwa al-anfusu walaqad jaahum min rabbihimu alhuda

23. These are nothing but names which ye have devised,- ye and your fathers,- for which Allah has sent down no authority (whatever). They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!


24. Am lil-insani ma tamanna

24. Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?


25. Falillahi al-akhiratu waal-oola

25. But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.


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