53:1By the star when it descends,
53:2Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,
53:3Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.
53:4It is not but a revelation revealed,
53:5Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] -
53:6One of soundness.1 And he rose to [his] true form2
53:7While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.1
53:8Then he approached and descended
53:9And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.
53:10And he revealed to His Servant1 what he revealed [i.e., conveyed].
53:11The heart1 did not lie [about] what it saw.
53:12So will you dispute with him over what he saw?
53:13And he certainly saw him in another descent1
53:14At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -
53:15Near it is the Garden of Refuge [i.e., Paradise] -
53:16When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it].1
53:17The sight [of the Prophet (ﷺ)] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit].
53:18He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.
53:19So have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?
53:20And Manāt, the third - the other one?1
53:21Is the male for you and for Him the female?
53:22That, then, is an unjust division.1
53:23They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allāh 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.
53:24Or is there for man whatever he wishes?
53:25Rather, to Allāh belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].
53:26And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will not avail at all except [only] after Allāh has permitted [it] to whom He wills and approves.