53:1  By the star when it falls away,

53:2  your friend was not misguided, nor was he misled,

53:3  nor does he speak out of personal desire.

53:4  It is but an inspiration being inspired.

53:5  He was taught by one mighty in power,

53:6  possessor of authority. He acquired perfect form

53:7  while he was at the highest horizon.

53:8  Then he moved down and hung suspended.

53:9  He was two bows' length away or closer.

53:10  He then inspired to His servant what he inspired.

53:11  The heart did not lie about what it saw.

53:12  Do you then dispute with him about what he saw?

53:13  He saw him in another descent,

53:14  by the lote-tree at the farthest point

53:15  at which lies the Garden of Refuge.

53:16  When that which covered the lote-tree covered it,

53:17  the sight did not deviate nor transgress.

53:18  He saw some of his Lord's greatest signs.

53:19  So have you seen Al-Lat and Al-Uzzah,

53:20  and Manat, the third, the other one?

53:21  Is the male for you and for Him the female?

53:22  This would then be an unjust distribution!

53:23  They are but names that you made up, you and your fathers. God has not brought down any authorisation for them. They follow nothing other than conjecture and what the selves desire, even though the guidance has come to them from their Lord.

53:24  Or is the human being to have whatever he wishes,

53:25  when to God belong the Hereafter as well as the first?

53:26  How many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession is of no benefit at all, except after God gives permission to whom He pleases and approves of?

53:27  Those who do not believe in the Hereafter give the angels female names.

53:28  They have no knowledge about it; they only follow conjecture. Conjecture is of no avail whatsoever against the truth.

53:29  So stay away from the one who turned away from Our remembrance and desired nothing other than the worldly life.

53:30  This is the extent of their knowledge. Indeed, your Lord knows best who has strayed away from His path, and He knows best who is guided.

53:31  To God belongs what is in the heavens and what is in the earth. He will repay those who commit evil for their work and will reward those who do good deeds with what is best.

53:32  They are the ones who stay away from major sins and immoralities, except for minor offences. Indeed, your Lord is of vast forgiveness. He had full knowledge of you when He initiated you from the earth and when you were embryos in your mothers' wombs. So do not claim purity for yourselves; He knows best who are the reverent ones.

53:33  Have you seen the one who turned away,

53:34  gave little and withheld?

53:35  Does he have knowledge of the unseen, enabling him to see?

53:36  Or was he not informed of what is in the Scrolls of Moses,

53:37  and Abraham who fulfilled:

53:38  that no burden-bearer bears the burden of another,

53:39  and that the human being has nothing to count for him except his own work,

53:40  and that his striving will surely be seen

53:41  whereupon he will be repaid for it with the fullest reward,

53:42  and that to your Lord is the final destination,

53:43  and that it is He who brings about the laughter and the weeping,

53:44  and that it is He who puts to death and brings to life,

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

53:46  from a tiny drop when it is ejaculated,

53:47  and that it is upon Him to bring about the other creation,

53:48  and that it is He who enriches and who suffices,

53:49  and that He is the Lord of Sirius,

53:50  and that He annihilated the earlier Aad

53:51  and Thamoud which He did not spare,

53:52  and previously, the people of Noah who were more unjust and transgressing,

53:53  and the overturned town which He brought tumbling down

53:54  then it was covered by that which covered it;

53:55  so which of your Lord's favours do you dispute?

53:56  This is a warning like the former warnings.

53:57  The Imminent has drawn near.

53:58  None other than God can unveil it.

53:59  Are you then astonished at this Hadith?

53:60  And you laugh and not weep

53:61  while you amuse yourselves?

53:62  So prostrate to God and worship.