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By the star when it goes down,
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Your Companion (the Messenger) has neither gone astray nor adopted a wrong way (in belief and action).
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He does not speak on his own, out of his own desire;
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That (which he conveys to you) is but a Revelation that is revealed to him.
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One of forceful might (Gabriel) has taught it;
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One firm, with ability to penetrate and perfect in spirit, rose with all his splendor
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When he was in the highest part of the horizon.
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Then, he drew near and came close,
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So he was (so near that there was left only the distance between) the strings of two bows (put adjacent to each other) or even nearer (than that).
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And He revealed to His servant what He revealed.
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The heart did not contradict what he saw (with his eyes).
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Will you then dispute with him concerning what he saw?
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Assuredly he saw him during a second descent,
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By the Lote-tree of the utmost boundary,
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Near it is the Garden of Refuge and Dwelling.
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Meanwhile that was covering the Lote-tree which was covering it.
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The sight (of the Messenger) did not swerve (so that he looked elsewhere and saw something different), nor did it go wrong (so that he might have seen an illusion).
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Indeed, he saw one among the greatest signs of His Lord.
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(As compared to that) have you considered al-Lat and al-‘Uzza?
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And the other, the third (idol), al-Manat: (what things are these that you concoct)?
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What? For you the males and for Him the females?
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That is an unfair division indeed!
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They (your false deities) are nothing but made-up names that you and your forefathers have invented; God sent no authority for them. They follow only conjecture and that which they themselves lust after. But now there has certainly come to them guidance from their Lord (Who has created them, and sustains them).
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Or will human attain whatever he craves?
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But (whatever human desires, be it to serve his higher good, or to serve his carnal appetites) to God belong the after(life) and the former (life).
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How many an angel there is in the heavens (even supposing they would intercede for a human) whose intercession does not avail at all except after God has given permission to whomever He wills (to intercede on behalf of whomever He wills) and is pleased with.
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It is those who do not believe in the Hereafter who name the angels (whom they regard as God’s daughters) with feminine names.
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They have no knowledge of this. They follow nothing other than conjecture, and conjecture can never substitute for anything of the truth.
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So withdraw from those who turn away from Our Book and remembrance, and desire nothing but the life of this world.
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Such is their sum of knowledge (limited by desires of the moment, and the falsehoods they have inherited unthinkingly and become used to, limited to the outer surface of things). Surely your Lord knows best him who has gone astray, and He knows best him who goes right (following the Straight Path of his Lord).
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