وَالنَّجْمِ

اِذَا

هَوٰی

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By the star when it goes down to set,

your fellow (the Holy Prophet) has neither missed the way, nor did he deviate.

He does not speak out of (his own) desire.

It is but revelation revealed (to him).

It is taught to him by one (angel) of strong faculties,

the one of vigour. So he stood poised,

while he was on the upper horizon.

Then he drew near, and came down,

so as he was at a distance like that of two bows (joined together), rather even nearer.

Thus He (Allah) revealed to His slave what He revealed.

The heart did not err in what he saw.

Do you quarrel with him in what he sees?

Indeed he saw him another time

by Sidrat-ul-Muntahā (the lote-tree in the upper realm),

near which there is Jannat-ul-Ma’wā (the Paradise of Abode),

when the lote-tree was covered by that which covered it.

The eye neither went wrong, nor did exceed the limit.

He has indeed seen a part of the biggest signs of your Lord.

and of Ibrāhīm who fulfilled (his duties)?

(It was) that no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of the other,

and that a man shall not deserve but (the reward of) his own effort,

and that his effort will soon be seen,

then he will be recompensed for it in full,

and that to your Lord is the end (of every one),

and that He is the One who makes (one) laugh and makes (him) weep,

and that He is the One who gives death and gives life,

and that He creates the pairs, male and female,

from a sperm-drop when it is poured (into a womb),

and that the second creation is undertaken by Him,

and that He is the One who gives wealth and preserves (it),

and that He is the One who is the Lord of Sirius (the star worshipped by pagans),

and that He has destroyed the earlier ‘Ād,

and Thamūd, so spared none,

and (destroyed) the people of NūH even earlier. Surely they were more unjust and more rebellious.

And He destroyed the overturned towns (of the people of LūT) also,

so enveloped they were by that which enveloped.