Sourate An-Najm (53) with hamza shown

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Benevolent. By the star when it sets: your companion has not strayed, nor has he erred. He does not speak from emotion — it is nothing but a revelation revealed.i 4

بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم وٱلنجم إذا هوى ما ضل صاحبكم وما غوى وما ينطق عن ٱلهوى إن هو إلا وحي يوحى

One of intense strength, of sound vigor, taught him, 6

علمه شديد ٱلقوى ذو مرة

then he appeared in his full stature, at the highest horizon. 7

فٱستوى وهو بٱلأفق ٱلأعلى

Then he drew near, and came closer still, until he was at the distance of two bow-lengths, or nearer. 9

ثم دنا فتدلى فكان قاب قوسين أو أدنى

He then revealed to His obedient one what He revealed. 10

فأوحى إلى عبده مآ أوحى

The Conscience did not lie about what it saw.i 11

ما كذب ٱلفؤاد ما رأى

Will you then dispute with him over what he sees? 12

أفتمرونه 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 enveloped by what enveloped it. 16

ولقد رءاه نزلة أخرى عند سدرة ٱلمنتهى عندها جنة ٱلمأوى إذ يغشى ٱلسدرة ما يغشى

The gaze did not turn aside, nor did it transgress. 17

ما زاغ ٱلبصر وما طغى

He saw, in truth, one of the greatest signs of his Guardian. 18

لقد رأى من ءايت ربه ٱلكبرى

Have you then considered Al-Lat, and Al-Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other? Would the male be for you, and for Him the female? 21

أفرءيتم ٱللت وٱلعزى ومنوة ٱلثالثة ٱلأخرى ألكم ٱلذكر وله ٱلأنثى

That, then, would be an unjust division. 22

تلك إذا قسمة ضيزى

They are nothing but names you have invented, you and your forefathers; God has sent down no authority for them. 23

إن هي إلآ أسمآء سميتموهآ أنتم وءابآؤكم مآ أنزل ٱلله بها من سلطن

They follow nothing but conjecture, and what the Selves desire. 23

إن يتبعون إلا ٱلظن وما تهوى ٱلأنفس

Though guidance has indeed come to them from their Guardian. 23

ولقد جآءهم من ربهم ٱلهدى

Or does the human being get whatever he wishes? 24

أم للإنسن ما تمنى

For to God belong the last and the first. 25

فلله ٱلءاخرة وٱلأولى

How many Agents are there in the heavens whose intercession avails nothing, except after God has permitted it, for whom He wills and approves.i 26

وكم من ملك في ٱلسموت لا تغني شفعتهم شيا إلا من بعد أن يأذن ٱلله لمن يشآء ويرضى

Those who do not believe in the Hereafter indeed give the Agents archetypes of the feminine.i 27

إن ٱلذين لا يؤمنون بٱلءاخرة ليسمون ٱلملئكة تسمية ٱلأنثى

Yet they have no knowledge of it. 28

وما لهم به من علم

They follow nothing but conjecture. 28

إن يتبعون إلا ٱلظن

And conjecture avails nothing against the truth. 28

وإن ٱلظن لا يغني من ٱلحق شيا

So turn away from whoever has turned away from Our Reminder and desired nothing but the present life. 29

فأعرض عن من تولى عن ذكرنا ولم يرد إلا ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا

That is the extent of their knowledge. 30

ذلك مبلغهم من ٱلعلم

Your Guardian indeed knows best who has strayed from His way, 30

إن ربك هو أعلم بمن ضل عن سبيله

and He knows best who has been guided. 30

وهو أعلم بمن ٱهتدى

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 [reward]. 31

ولله ما في ٱلسموت وما في ٱلأرض ليجزي ٱلذين أسوا بما عملوا ويجزي ٱلذين أحسنوا بٱلحسنى

Those who avoid the major transgressions and indecencies, except minor lapses. 32

ٱلذين يجتنبون كبئر ٱلإثم وٱلفوحش إلا ٱللمم

Your Guardian is indeed vast in forgiveness. 32

إن ربك وسع ٱلمغفرة

He knows you best, when He brought you forth from the earth, and when you were embryos in your mothers' wombs. 32

هو أعلم بكم إذ أنشأكم من ٱلأرض وإذ أنتم أجنة في بطون أمهتكم

So do not claim yourselves to be pure.i 32

فلا تزكوا أنفسكم

He knows best who has remained mindful. 32

هو أعلم بمن ٱتقى

Have you then seen the one who turned away, gave a little, then stopped? 34

أفرءيت ٱلذي تولى وأعطى قليلا وأكدى

Does he have knowledge of what escapes the senses, so that he sees?i 35

أعنده علم ٱلغيب فهو يرى

Or has he not been informed of what is in the pages of Moussa, and of Ibrahim, who fulfilled [his mission]: that no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another,i 38

أم لم ينبأ بما في صحف موسى وإبرهيم ٱلذي وفى ألا تزر وازرة وزر أخرى

and that the human being will have nothing but what he strove for, 39

وأن ليس للإنسن إلا ما سعى

and that his effort will soon be shown, 40

وأن سعيه سوف يرى

then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense, 41

ثم يجزىه ٱلجزآء ٱلأوفى

and that to your Guardian is the final boundary, 42

وأن إلى ربك ٱلمنتهى

and that it is He who causes laughter and weeping, 43

وأنه هو أضحك وأبكى

and that it is He who causes death and gives life, 44

وأنه هو أمات وأحيا

and that He created the two mates, the male and the female, from a drop of fluid when it is deposited, 46

وأنه خلق ٱلزوجين ٱلذكر وٱلأنثى من نطفة إذا تمنى

and that upon Him rests the other genesis, 47

وأن عليه ٱلنشأة ٱلأخرى

and that it is He who enriched and granted lasting possession, 48

وأنه هو أغنى وأقنى

and that it is He, the Guardian of Sirius, 49

وأنه هو رب ٱلشعرى

and that He destroyed the Recidivists [Aad], the first, and Thamud, leaving nothing behind, and the people of Nuh before that —i 52

وأنه أهلك عادا ٱلأولى وثمودا فمآ أبقى وقوم نوح من قبل

for they were, indeed, more unjust and more transgressing. 52

إنهم كانوا هم أظلم وأطغى

And the overturned [city], He cast it down.i 53

وٱلمؤتفكة أهوى

Then covered it with what covered it. 54

فغشىها ما غشى

So which of your Guardian's favors do you doubt? 55

فبأى ءالآء ربك تتمارى

This is a warner among the warners of old. 56

هذا نذير من ٱلنذر ٱلأولى

The Imminent has drawn near. 57

أزفت ٱلءازفة

None besides God can unveil it. 58

ليس لها من دون ٱلله كاشفة

Is it then this discourse that you marvel at, laughing, not weeping, while you remain heedless? 61

أفمن هذا ٱلحديث تعجبون وتضحكون ولا تبكون وأنتم سمدون

So prostrate to God, and obey [Him]. 62

فٱسجدوا لله وٱعبدوا