53:1  By the Star when it plunges

53:2  your comrade is not astray, neither errs

53:3  nor speaks he out of caprice

53:4  This is naught but a revelation revealed

53:5  taught him by one terrible in power

53:6  very strong; he stood poised

53:7  being on the higher horizon

53:8  then drew near and suspended hung

53:9  two bows' length away, or nearer

53:10  then revealed to his servant that he revealed

53:11  His heart lies not of what he saw

53:12  what, will you dispute with him what he sees

53:13  Indeed, he saw him another tim

53:14  by the Lote-Tree of the Boundar

53:15  nigh which is the Garden of the Refuge

53:16  when there covered the Lote-Tree that which covered

53:17  his eye swerved not; nor swept astray

53:18  Indeed, he saw one of the greatest signs of his Lord

53:19  Have you considered El-Lat and El-'Uzz

53:20  and Manat the third, the other

53:21  What, have you males, and He females

53:22  That were indeed an unjust division

53:23  They are naught but names yourselves have named, and your fathers; God has sent down no authority touching them. They follow only surmise, and what the souls desire; and yet guidance has come to them from their Lord

53:24  Or shall man have whatever he fancies

53:25  And to God belongs the First and the Last

53:26  How many an angel there is in the heavens whose intercession avails not anything, save after that God gives leave to whomsoever He wills and is well-pleased

53:27  Those who do not believe in the world to come name the angels with the names of females

53:28  They have not any knowledge thereof; they follow only surmise, and surmise avails naught against truth

53:29  So turn thou from him who turns away from Our Remembrance, and desires only the present life

53:30  That is their attainment of knowledge. Surely thy Lord knows very well those who have gone astray from His way, and He knows very well those who are guided

53:31  To God belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, that He may recompense those who do evil for what they have done, and recompense those who have done good with the reward most fair

53:32  Those who avoid the heinous sins and indecencies, save lesser offences surely thy Lord is wide in His forgiveness. Very well He knows you, when He produced you from the earth, and when you were yet unborn in your mothers' wombs; therefore hold not yourselves purified; God knows very well him who is godfearing

53:33  Hast thou considered him who turns his bac

53:34  and gives a little, and then grudgingly

53:35  Does he possess the knowledge of the Unseen, and therefore he sees

53:36  Or has he not been told of what is in the scrolls of Moses

53:37  and Abraham, he who paid his debt in full

53:38  That no soul laden bears the load of another

53:39  and that a man shall have to his account only as he has laboured

53:40  and that his labouring shall surely be seen

53:41  then he shall be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense

53:42  and that the final end is unto thy Lord

53:43  and that it is He who makes to laugh, and that makes to weep

53:44  and that it is He who makes to die, and that makes to live

53:45  and that He Himself created the two kinds, male and female

53:46  of a sperm-drop, when it was cast forth

53:47  and that upon Him rests the second growth

53:48  and that it is He who gives wealth and riches

53:49  and that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius

53:50  and that He destroyed Ad, the ancient

53:51  and Thamood, and He did not spare them

53:52  and the people of Noah before -- certainly they did exceeding evil, and were insolen

53:53  and the Subverted City He also overthrew

53:54  so that there covered it that which covered

53:55  Then which of thy Lord's bounties disputest thou

53:56  This is a warner, of the warners of old

53:57  The Imminent is imminent

53:58  apart from God none can disclose it

53:59  Do you then marvel at this discourse

53:60  and do you laugh, and do you not weep

53:61  while you make merry

53:62  So bow yourselves before God, and serve Him