The Star

وَٱلنَّجۡمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ

By the star when it descends

مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمۡ وَمَا غَوَىٰ

Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰٓ

Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination

إِنۡ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحۡيٞ يُوحَىٰ

It is not but a revelation revealed

عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلۡقُوَىٰ

Taught to him by one intense in strength

ذُو مِرَّةٖ فَٱسۡتَوَىٰ

One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form

وَهُوَ بِٱلۡأُفُقِ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ

While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon

ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّىٰ

Then he approached and descended

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوۡسَيۡنِ أَوۡ أَدۡنَىٰ

And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer

فَأَوۡحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبۡدِهِۦ مَآ أَوۡحَىٰ

And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed

مَا كَذَبَ ٱلۡفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰٓ

The heart did not lie [about] what it saw

أَفَتُمَٰرُونَهُۥ عَلَىٰ مَا يَرَىٰ

So will you dispute with him over what he saw

وَلَقَدۡ رَءَاهُ نَزۡلَةً أُخۡرَىٰ

And he certainly saw him in another descent

عِندَ سِدۡرَةِ ٱلۡمُنتَهَىٰ

At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary

عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰٓ

Near it is the Garden of Refuge

إِذۡ يَغۡشَى ٱلسِّدۡرَةَ مَا يَغۡشَىٰ

When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it]

مَا زَاغَ ٱلۡبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ

The sight [of the Prophet] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit]

لَقَدۡ رَأَىٰ مِنۡ ءَايَٰتِ رَبِّهِ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰٓ

He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord

أَفَرَءَيۡتُمُ ٱللَّـٰتَ وَٱلۡعُزَّىٰ

So have you considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza

وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلۡأُخۡرَىٰٓ

And Manat, the third - the other one

أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلۡأُنثَىٰ

Is the male for you and for Him the female

تِلۡكَ إِذٗا قِسۡمَةٞ ضِيزَىٰٓ

That, then, is an unjust division

إِنۡ هِيَ إِلَّآ أَسۡمَآءٞ سَمَّيۡتُمُوهَآ أَنتُمۡ وَءَابَآؤُكُم مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلۡطَٰنٍۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهۡوَى ٱلۡأَنفُسُۖ وَلَقَدۡ جَآءَهُم مِّن رَّبِّهِمُ ٱلۡهُدَىٰٓ

They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allah has sent down no authority. They follow not except assumption and what [their] souls desire, and there has already come to them from their Lord guidance

أَمۡ لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ مَا تَمَنَّىٰ

Or is there for man whatever he wishes

فَلِلَّهِ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةُ وَٱلۡأُولَىٰ

Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and the first [life]