53:1  By the star when it sets

53:2  Your companion errs not, nor does he deviate

53:3  Nor does he speak out of desire

53:4  It is naught but revelation that is revealed -

53:5  One Mighty in Power has taught him

53:6  The Lord of Strength. So he attained to perfection

53:7  And he is in the highest part of the horizon

53:8  Then he drew near, drew nearer yet

53:9  So he was the measure of two bows or closer still

53:10  So He revealed to His servant what He revealed

53:11  The heart was not untrue in seeing what he saw

53:12  Do you then dispute with him as to what he saw

53:13  And certainly he saw Him in another descent

53:14  At the farthest lote-tree

53:15  Near it is the Garden of Abode

53:16  When that which covers covered the lote-tree

53:17  The eye turned not aside, nor did it exceed the limit

53:18  Certainly he saw of the greatest signs of his Lord

53:19  Have you then considered Lat and ‘Uzza

53:20  And another, the third, Manat

53:21  Are the males for you and for Him the females

53:22  This indeed is an unjust division

53:23  They are naught but names which you have named, you and your fathers -- Allah has sent no authority for them. They follow but conjecture and what (their) souls desire. And certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord

53:24  Or shall man have what he wishes

53:25  But for Allah is the Hereafter and the former (life)

53:26  And how many angels are in the heavens, whose intercession avails naught except after Allah gives permission to whom He pleases and chooses

53:27  Surely those who believe not in the Hereafter name the angels with female names

53:28  And they have no knowledge of it. They follow but conjecture, and surely conjecture avails naught against Truth

53:29  So shun him who turns his back upon Our Reminder, and desires nothing but this world’s life

53:30  That is their goal of knowledge. Surely thy Lord knows best him who strays from His path and He knows best him who goes aright

53:31  And Allah’s is whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, that He may reward those who do evil for that which they do, and reward those who do good with goodness

53:32  Those who avoid the great sins and the indecencies, but the passing idea -- surely thy Lord is Liberal in Forgiving. He knows best when He brings you forth from the earth and when you are embryos in the wombs of your mothers; so ascribe not purity to yourselves. He knows him best who guards against evil

53:33  Seest thou him who turns back

53:34  And gives a little, then withholds

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

53:36  Or has he not been informed of what is in the scriptures of Moses

53:37  And (of) Abraham who fulfilled (commandments)

53:38  That no bearer of a burden bears another’s burden

53:39  And that man can have nothing but what he strives for

53:40  And that his striving will soon be seen

53:41  Then he will be rewarded for it with the fullest reward

53:42  And that to thy Lord is the goal

53:43  And that He it is Who makes (men) laugh and makes (them) weep

53:44  And that He it is Who causes death and gives life

53:45  And that He creates pairs, the male and the female

53:46  From the small life-germ when it is adapted

53:47  And that He his ordained the second bringing forth

53:48  And that He it is Who gives wealth and contentment

53:49  And that He is the Lord of Sirius

53:50  And that He destroyed the First ‘Ad

53:51  And Thamud, so He spared not

53:52  And the people of Noah before. Surely they were most iniquitous and inordinate

53:53  And the overthrown cities, He hurled down

53:54  So there covered them that which covered

53:55  Which, then, of thy Lord’s benefits wilt thou dispute

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

53:57  The near Event draw nigh

53:58  There is none besides Allah to remove it

53:59  Do you wonder then at this announcement?

53:60  And do you laugh and not weep,

53:61  while you sport?

53:62  So bow down in prostration before Allah and serve (Him).