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(I swear) By the star when it sets.
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Your companion (Muhammad) does not err, nor is he deceived (or astray or is misled);
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Nor does he speak out of (his own) desire.
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It (the Quran) is naught but revelation that is inspired (sent down to him);
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Taught by one of mighty power, (The Archangel Gabriel)
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Endowed with wisdom; for he appeared in clear vision,
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While he was in the highest part of the horizon.
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Then he drew near, and descended
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Until he was two bows distant or closer still.
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And He revealed to His servant what He revealed.
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The heart (of the Prophet) lied not in (making him see) what he saw.
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What! Do you then dispute with him as to what he saw?
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And certainly he saw him in another descent,
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At the Lote-tree of the furthest boundary;
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Near which is the Garden of Abode (or Presence),
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When that which shrouds (in mystery) covered the Lote-tree;
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The eye did not swerve, nor did it exceed the limit (or was over bold or went wrong).
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Certainly he saw of the Greatest Signs of his Lord.
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Have you seen Lat and Uzza,
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And Manat, the third, the last?
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What! For you the males and for Him the females!
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This indeed is an unjust division!
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They are naught but names which you have named, you and your fathers; Allah has not sent for them any authority. They follow naught but conjecture and the low desires which their souls incline to, even though true guidance has come to them from their Lord.
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Or shall man have whatever whims he wishes?
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Nay! To Allah belongs the after and the former life (or the End and the Beginning).
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And how many so ever angels are in the heavens, their intercession does not avail at all except after Allah has given permission to whom He wills and chooses to accept.
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Most surely they who do not believe in the Hereafter name the angels with female names.
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And they have no knowledge of it; they do not follow anything but conjecture, and surely conjecture does not avail against the truth at all.
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Therefore, turn aside from him who turns his back upon Our reminder (or remembrance) and does not desire anything but the life of this world.
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That is their sum of knowledge; surely your Lord knows best him who goes astray from His path and He knows best him who follows the right direction.
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