1. By the Star when it goes down,-
2. Ma dalla sahibukum wama ghawa
2. Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled.
3. Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire.
4. It is no less than inspiration sent down to him:
5. He was taught by one Mighty in Power,
6. Endued with Wisdom: for he appeared (in stately form);
7. While he was in the highest part of the horizon:
8. Then he approached and came closer,
9. Fakana qaba qawsayni aw adna
9. And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer;
10. Faawha ila AAabdihi ma awha
10. So did ((Allah)) convey the inspiration to His Servant- (conveyed) what He (meant) to convey.
11. Ma kathaba alfu-adu ma raa
11. The (Prophet's) (mind and) heart in no way falsified that which he saw.
12. Afatumaroonahu AAala ma yara
12. Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw?
13. Walaqad raahu nazlatan okhra
13. For indeed he saw him at a second descent,
14. Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:
15. Near it is the Garden of Abode.
16. Ith yaghsha alssidrata ma yaghsha
16. Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)
17. Ma zagha albasaru wama tagha
17. (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!
18. Laqad raa min ayati rabbihi alkubra
18. For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!
19. Afaraaytumu allata waalAAuzza
19. Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza,
20. Wamanata alththalithata al-okhra
20. And another, the third (goddess), Manat?
21. Alakumu alththakaru walahu al-ontha
21. What! for you the male sex, and for Him, the female?
22. Tilka ithan qismatun deeza
22. Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair!
23. In hiya illa asmaon sammaytumooha antum waabaokum ma anzala Allahu biha min sultanin in yattabiAAoona illa alththanna wama tahwa al-anfusu walaqad jaahum min rabbihimu alhuda
23. These are nothing but names which ye have devised,- ye and your fathers,- for which Allah has sent down no authority (whatever). They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!
24. Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?
25. Falillahi al-akhiratu waal-oola
25. But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.