53:1  By the star when it falls

53:2  your comrade errs not, nor is he deluded

53:3  nor speaks he out of lust

53:4  It is but an inspiration inspired

53:5  One mighty in power taught him

53:6  endowed with sound understanding, and appeared

53:7  he being in the loftiest tract

53:8  Then drew he near and hovered o'er

53:9  until he was two bows length off or nigher still

53:10  Then he inspired his servant what he inspired him

53:11  the heart belies not what he saw

53:12  What, will ye dispute with him on what he saw

53:13  And he saw him another time

53:14  by the lote tree none may pass

53:15  near which is the garden of the Abode

53:16  When there covered the lote tree what did cover it

53:17  The sight swerved not nor wandered

53:18  He saw then the greatest of the signs of his Lord

53:19  Have ye considered Allat and Al 'Huzza

53:20  and Manat the other third

53:21  Shall there be male offspring for Him and female for you

53:22  That were an unfair division

53:23  They are but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers! God has sent down no authority for them! They do but follow suspicion and what their souls lust after!- And yet there has come to them guidance from their Lord

53:24  Shall man have what he desires

53:25  But God's is the hereafter and the present

53:26  How many an angel in the heaven!- their intercession avails not at all, save after God has given permission to whomsoever He will and is pleased with

53:27  Verily, those who believe not in the hereafter do surely name the angels with female names!

53:28  but they have no knowledge thereof; they do but follow suspicion, and, verily, suspicion shall not avail against the truth at all

53:29  But turn aside from him who turns his back upon our remembrance and desires naught but this world's life

53:30  This is their sum of knowledge; verily, thy Lord knows best who has erred from His way, and He knows best who is guided

53:31  God's is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil for what they have done; and may reward those who do good with good

53:32  those who shun great sins and iniquities,- all but venial faults,- verily, thy Lord is of ample forgiveness; He knows best about you, when He produced you from the earth, and when ye were embryos in the wombs of your mothers. Make not yourselves out, then, to be pure; He knows best who it is that fears

53:33  Hast thou considered him who turns his back

53:34  who gives but little and then stops

53:35  Has he then the knowledge of the unseen, so that he can see

53:36  Has he not been informed of what is in the pages of Mose

53:37  and Abraham who fulfilled his word?

53:38  that no burdened soul shall bear the burden of another

53:39  and that man shall have only that for which he strives

53:40  and that his striving shall at length be seen

53:41  Then shall he be rewarded for it with the most full reward

53:42  and that unto thy Lord is the limit

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

53:44  and that it is He who kills and makes alive

53:45  and that He created pairs, male and female

53:46  from a clot when it is emitted

53:47  and that for Him is the next production

53:48  and that he enriches and gives possession

53:49  and that He is the Lord of the Dog-star

53:50  and that He it was who destroyed 'Ad of yore

53:51  and Thamud, and left none of them

53:52  and the people of Noah before them,- verily, they were most unjust and outrageous

53:53  And the overthrown (cities) He threw down

53:54  and there covered them what did cover them

53:55  Which then of your Lord's benefits do ye dispute

53:56  This is a warner, one of the warners of yore

53:57  The approaching day approaches

53:58  there, is none to discover it but God

53:59  At this new discourse then do ye wonder

53:60  and do ye laugh and not weep

53:61  and ye divert yourselves the while

53:62  But adore God and serve (Him)