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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- By the Star when it goes down
- Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled
- Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire.
- It is no less than inspiration sent down to him:
- He was taught by one mighty in Power
- Endued with Wisdom: For he appeared (in stately form)
- While he was in the highest part of the horizon:
- Then he approached and came closer
- And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or (even) nearer;
- So did (Allah) convey the inspiration to His Servant (conveyed) what He (meant) to convey.
- The (Prophet's) (mind and) heart in no way falsified that which he saw.
- Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw?
- For indeed he saw him at a second descent.
- Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:
- Near it is the Garden of Abode.
- Behold the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)
- (His) sight never swerved nor did it go wrong!
- For truly did he see of the Signs of his Lord the Greatest!
- Have ye seen Lat an Uzza
- And another the third (goddess) Manat?
- What! for you the male sex and for Him the female?
- Behold such would be indeed a division most unfair!
- 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!
- Nay shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?
- But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.
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