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By the star as it goes down.
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Your friend has not gone astray, nor has he erred.
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Nor does he speak out of desire.
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It is but a revelation revealed.
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Taught to him by the Extremely Powerful.
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The one of vigor. He settled.
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While he was at the highest horizon.
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Then he came near, and hovered around.
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He was within two bows’ length, or closer.
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Then He revealed to His servant what He revealed.
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The heart did not lie about what it saw.
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Will you dispute with him concerning what he saw?
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He saw him on another descent.
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At the Lotus Tree of the Extremity.
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Near which is the Garden of Repose.
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As there covered the Lotus Tree what covered it.
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The sight did not waver, nor did it exceed.
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He saw some of the Great Signs of his Lord.
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Have you considered al-Lat and al-Uzza?
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And Manat, the third one, the other?
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Are you to have the males, and He the females?
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What a bizarre distribution.
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These are nothing but names, which you have devised, you and your ancestors, for which God sent down no authority. They follow nothing but assumptions, and what the ego desires, even though guidance has come to them from their Lord.
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Or is the human being to have whatever he desires?
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To God belong the Last and the First.
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How many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession avails nothing, except after God gives permission to whomever He wills, and approves?
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Those who do not believe in the Hereafter give the angels the names of females.
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They have no knowledge of that. They only follow assumptions, and assumptions are no substitute for the truth.
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So avoid him who has turned away from Our remembrance, and desires nothing but the present life.
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That is the extent of their knowledge. Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best who has accepted guidance.
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