1By the star when it descends,

2Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,

3Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.

4It is not but a revelation revealed,

5Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] –

6One of soundness.¹⁴⁵⁴ And he rose to [his] true form¹⁴⁵⁵

7While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.¹⁴⁵⁶

8Then he approached and descended

9And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.

10And he revealed to His Servant¹⁴⁵⁷ what he revealed [i.e., conveyed].

11The heart¹⁴⁵⁸ did not lie [about] what it saw.

12So will you dispute with him over what he saw?

13And he certainly saw him in another descent¹⁴⁵⁹

14At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary –

15Near it is the Garden of Refuge [i.e., Paradise] –

16When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it].¹⁴⁶⁰

17The sight [of the Prophet (ﷺ)] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit].

18He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.

19So have you considered al-Lāt and al-'Uzzā?

20And Manāt, the third – the other one?¹⁴⁶¹

21Is the male for you and for Him the female?

22That, then, is an unjust division.¹⁴⁶²

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.

24Or is there for man whatever he wishes?

25Rather, to Allāh belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].

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.

27Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter name the angels female names,

28And they have thereof no knowledge. They follow not except assumption, and indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all.

29So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our message and desires not except the worldly life.

30That is their sum of knowledge. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who strays from His way, and He is most knowing of who is guided.

31And to Allāh belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth – that He may recompense those who do evil with [the penalty of] what they have done and recompense those who do good with the best [reward] –

32Those who avoid the major sins and immoralities, only [committing] slight ones. Indeed, your Lord is vast in forgiveness. He was most knowing of you when He produced you from the earth and when you were fetuses in the wombs of your mothers. So do not claim yourselves to be pure;