An-Najm

By the star when it sets: your companion has not strayed, nor has he erred. He utters nothing from emotion — it is nothing but a revelation revealed.

والنجم اذا هوى ما ضل صاحبكم وما غوى وما ينطق عن الهوى ان هو الا وحي يوحى

One of intense strength, of sound vigor, taught him,

علمه شديد القوى ذو مرة

then he appeared in his full stature, at the highest horizon.

فاستوى وهو بالافق الاعلى

Then he drew near, and bent down, until he was at the distance of two bow-lengths, or nearer.

ثم دنا فتدلى فكان قاب قوسين او ادنى

He then revealed to His obedient one what He revealed.

فاوحى الى عبده ما اوحى

The Conscience did not lie about what he saw.

ما كذب الفواد ما راى

Will you then wrangle with him over what he sees?

افتمرونه على ما يرى

He saw him, in truth, another time, near the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary — near which lies the Garden of Refuge — when the Lote Tree was covered by what covered it.

ولقد رءاه نزلة اخرى عند سدرة المنتهى عندها جنة الماوى اذ يغشى السدرة ما يغشى

The gaze did not deviate, nor did it exceed the measure.

ما زاغ البصر وما طغى

He saw, in truth, one of the greatest signs of his Guardian.

لقد راى من ءايت ربه الكبرى

Do you then see Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other? Would the male be for you, and for Him the female?

افرءيتم اللت والعزى ومنوة الثالثة الاخرى الكم الذكر وله الانثى

That, then, would be an inequitable division.

تلك اذا قسمة ضيزى

Though guidance has indeed come to them from their Guardian.

ولقد جاءهم من ربهم الهدى

Or does the human being get whatever he wishes?

ام للانسن ما تمنى

For to God belong the last life and the first.

فلله الءاخرة والاولى

How many Agents are there in the heavens whose intercession avails nothing, except after God has authorized it, for whom He wills and approves.

وكم من ملك في السموت لا تغني شفعتهم شيا الا من بعد ان ياذن الله لمن يشاء ويرضى

Those who do not believe in the last life surely give the Agents the attribute of the feminine.

ان الذين لا يومنون بالءاخرة ليسمون المليكة تسمية الانثى

And presumption does not avail at all against the truth.

وان الظن لا يغني من الحق شيا

So turn away from whoever has turned his back on Our Reminder and wanted nothing but the present life.

فاعرض عن من تولى عن ذكرنا ولم يرد الا الحيوة الدنيا

and He knows best who has let himself be guided.

وهو اعلم بمن اهتدى

To God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, so that He may recompense those who did evil for what they did, and recompense those who did good with the best.

ولله ما في السموت وما في الارض ليجزي الذين اسوا بما عملوا ويجزي الذين احسنوا بالحسنى

He knows best who has guarded himself.

هو اعلم بمن اتقى

Have you then seen the one who turned his back, endowed little, then stopped short?

افرءيت الذي تولى واعطى قليلا واكدى

Does he have knowledge of what escapes the senses, so that he sees?

اعنده علم الغيب فهو يرى

Or has he not been informed of what is in the chronicles of Moussa, and of Ibrahim, who was faithful: that no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another,

ام لم ينبا بما في صحف موسى وابرهيم الذي وفى الا تزر وازرة وزر اخرى

and that the human being will have nothing but what he has endeavoured,

وان ليس للانسن الا ما سعى

and that his endeavour will soon be shown,

وان سعيه سوف يرى

then he will be recompensed for it with the most faithful recompense,

ثم يجزىه الجزاء الاوفى

and that to your Guardian is the utmost boundary,

وان الى ربك المنتهى

and that it is He who causes laughter and weeping,

وانه هو اضحك وابكى

and that it is He who causes death and gives life,

وانه هو امات واحيا

and that He created the two mates, the male and the female, from a drop when it is emitted,

وانه خلق الزوجين الذكر والانثى من نطفة اذا تمنى

and that upon Him rests the other genesis,

وان عليه النشاة الاخرى

and that it is He who enriched and granted lasting possession,

وانه هو اغنى واقنى

and that it is He who is the Guardian of Sirius,

وانه هو رب الشعرى

for they themselves did more wrong and were more immoderate.

انهم كانوا هم اظلم واطغى

And the overturned one, He cast it down.

والموتفكة اهوى

Then covered it with what covered it.

فغشىها ما غشى

So which of your Guardian's blessings do you contend about?

فباى ءالاء ربك تتمارى

This is a warner among the warners of old.

هذا نذير من النذر الاولى

The Imminent has drawn near.

ازفت الءازفة

None besides God can uncover it.

ليس لها من دون الله كاشفة

Is it then this discourse that you marvel at, laughing, not weeping, while you remain heedless?

افمن هذا الحديث تعجبون وتضحكون ولا تبكون وانتم سمدون

So prostrate to God, and obey.

فاسجدوا لله واعبدوا