53:1  By the star when it sets

53:2  your companion has neither strayed nor erred

53:3  nor does he speak out of caprice

53:4  It is naught but a revelation revealed

53:5  taught him by one of awesome power

53:6  Possessed of vigor, he stood uprigh

53:7  when he was upon the highest horizon

53:8  Then he drew nigh and came close

53:9  till he was within two bows’ length or nearer

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

53:11  The heart lied not in what it saw

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

53:13  And indeed he saw him another time

53:14  at the lote tree of the boundary

53:15  by which lies the Garden of the refuge

53:16  when there covered the lote tree that which covered

53:17  The gaze swerved not; nor did it transgress

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

53:19  Have you considered al-Lat and al-?Uzz

53:20  and Manat, the third, the other

53:21  Unto you males and unto Him females

53:22  This, then, is an unfair division

53:23  They are naught but names that you have named—you and your fathers—for which God has sent down no authority. They follow naught but conjecture and that which their souls desire, though guidance has surely come to them from their Lord

53:24  Or shall man have whatsoever he longs for

53:25  Yet unto God belong the Hereafter and this world

53:26  And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession avails naught, save after God grants leave unto whomsoever He will and unto the one with whom He is content

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

53:28  Yet they have no knowledge thereof. They follow naught but conjecture; and surely conjecture avails naught against the Truth

53:29  So shun whosoever turns away from Our Reminder and desires naught but the life of the world

53:30  That is the extent of their knowledge. Surely thy Lord knows best those who stray from His way, and He knows best those who are rightly guided

53:31  Unto God belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is on the earth, that He may requite those who commit evil for that which they have done, and that He may requite those who are virtuous with that which is most beautiful

53:32  those who shun grave sins and indecencies, save what is slight; truly your Lord is of vast forgiveness. He knows you best, from when He brought you forth from the earth and when you were hidden in your mothers’ bellies. So deem not yourselves purified. He knows best the reverent

53:33  Have you seen the one who turned away

53:34  gave little, and then withheld

53:35  Does he have knowledge of the Unseen, such that he sees

53:36  Or has he not been informed of that which is in the scriptures of Mose

53:37  and Abraham, who fulfilled

53:38  that none shall bear the burden of another

53:39  that man shall have naught but that for which he endeavored

53:40  and that his endeavoring shall be seen

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

53:42  that the ultimate end is unto thy Lord

53:43  that it is He Who causes laughter and weeping

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

53:45  and that He creates the two—male and female

53:46  from a drop when emitted

53:47  and that with Him lies the second genesis

53:48  that it is He Who enriches and grants possessions

53:49  that it is He Who is the Lord of Sirius

53:50  and that He destroyed ?Ad the Forme

53:51  and Thamud, sparing none

53:52  and the people of Noah aforetime—truly they were most wrongdoing and most rebellious

53:53  and He razed the subverted cities

53:54  such that there covered them that which covered

53:55  So which of thy Lord’s boons do you dispute

53:56  This is a warning from the warners of old

53:57  The imminent is nigh

53:58  It has no unveiler apart from God

53:59  Do you then marvel at this discourse

53:60  And do you laugh and not weep

53:61  a while you stand with head held high

53:62  So prostrate unto God and worship