AN NAJM (BINTANG)

وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَى

By the star when it descends,

مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَى

Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى

Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.

إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى

It is not but a revelation revealed,

عَلَّمَهُ شَدِيدُ الْقُوَى

Taught to him by one intense in strength -

ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَاسْتَوَى

One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form

وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَى

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

ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّى

Then he approached and descended

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى

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

فَأَوْحَى إِلَى عَبْدِهِ مَا أَوْحَى

And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed.

مَا كَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَى

The heart did not lie [about] what it saw.

أَفَتُمَارُونَهُ عَلَى مَا يَرَى

So will you dispute with him over what he saw?

وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَى

And he certainly saw him in another descent

عِندَ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى

At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -

عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ الْمَأْوَى

Near it is the Garden of Refuge -

إِذْ يَغْشَى السِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَى

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

مَا زَاغَ الْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَى

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

لَقَدْ رَأَى مِنْ آيَاتِ رَبِّهِ الْكُبْرَى

He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.

أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ اللَّاتَ وَالْعُزَّى

So have you considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza?

وَمَنَاةَ الثَّالِثَةَ الْأُخْرَى

And Manat, the third - the other one?