آیت :
1
وَٱلنَّجۡمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ
By the star when it sets,
آیت :
2
مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمۡ وَمَا غَوَىٰ
Your companion [i.e., the Prophet] has neither strayed nor is he deluded.
آیت :
3
وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰٓ
Nor does he speak out of his own desire.
آیت :
4
إِنۡ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحۡيٞ يُوحَىٰ
It is but a revelation sent down [to him].
آیت :
5
عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلۡقُوَىٰ
He was taught by [an angel of] mighty power[1],
آیت :
6
ذُو مِرَّةٖ فَٱسۡتَوَىٰ
and of great perfection[2], who manifested himself [in his true form][3]
آیت :
7
وَهُوَ بِٱلۡأُفُقِ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ
when he was on the higher horizon[4].
آیت :
8
ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّىٰ
Then he approached [the Prophet] and descended,
آیت :
9
فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوۡسَيۡنِ أَوۡ أَدۡنَىٰ
until he was only two bow-lengths away or even closer.
آیت :
10
فَأَوۡحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبۡدِهِۦ مَآ أَوۡحَىٰ
Then he revealed to His slave[5] what he had to reveal.
آیت :
11
مَا كَذَبَ ٱلۡفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰٓ
The [Prophet’s] heart[6] did not deny what he saw.
آیت :
12
أَفَتُمَٰرُونَهُۥ عَلَىٰ مَا يَرَىٰ
Do you dispute with him concerning what he saw?
آیت :
13
وَلَقَدۡ رَءَاهُ نَزۡلَةً أُخۡرَىٰ
He certainly saw him a second time[7]
آیت :
14
عِندَ سِدۡرَةِ ٱلۡمُنتَهَىٰ
at the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary [in the seventh heaven]
آیت :
15
عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰٓ
near which is the Garden of Abode,
آیت :
16
إِذۡ يَغۡشَى ٱلسِّدۡرَةَ مَا يَغۡشَىٰ
when the Lote Tree was overwhelmed with [divine] splendors.
آیت :
17
مَا زَاغَ ٱلۡبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ
His gaze did not wander, nor did it look beyond the limit.
آیت :
18
لَقَدۡ رَأَىٰ مِنۡ ءَايَٰتِ رَبِّهِ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰٓ
He certainly saw some of the greatest signs of his Lord.
آیت :
19
أَفَرَءَيۡتُمُ ٱللَّٰتَ وَٱلۡعُزَّىٰ
Have you [O disbelievers] thought about [the idols of] Lāt and ‘Uzzā,
آیت :
20
وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلۡأُخۡرَىٰٓ
and Manāt, the third one as well[8]?
آیت :
21
أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلۡأُنثَىٰ
Do you choose for yourselves males and for Him females?
آیت :
22
تِلۡكَ إِذٗا قِسۡمَةٞ ضِيزَىٰٓ
That is then an unfair division!
آیت :
23
إِنۡ هِيَ إِلَّآ أَسۡمَآءٞ سَمَّيۡتُمُوهَآ أَنتُمۡ وَءَابَآؤُكُم مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلۡطَٰنٍۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهۡوَى ٱلۡأَنفُسُۖ وَلَقَدۡ جَآءَهُم مِّن رَّبِّهِمُ ٱلۡهُدَىٰٓ
These [idols] are no more than names you and your forefathers have made up[9], 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.
آیت :
24
أَمۡ لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ مَا تَمَنَّىٰ
Is it that man can get whatever he wishes for[10]?
آیت :
25
فَلِلَّهِ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةُ وَٱلۡأُولَىٰ
Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and this world.
آیت :
26
۞ وَكَم مِّن مَّلَكٖ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ لَا تُغۡنِي شَفَٰعَتُهُمۡ شَيۡـًٔا إِلَّا مِنۢ بَعۡدِ أَن يَأۡذَنَ ٱللَّهُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرۡضَىٰٓ
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.
