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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE STAR WHEN IT GOES AWAY

2  YOUR COMPANION IS NEITHER MISLEAD OR ASTRAY

3  NOR DOES HE SAY ANYTHING OF HIS OWN DESIRE 

4  IT IS NO LESS THAN A MESSAGE THAT IS INSPIRED

5  HE HAS BEEN TAUGHT THIS QURAN BY ONE MIGHTY IN POWER

6  THE LORD OF STRENGTH, SO HE GAINED HIS PROTECTION

7  WHILE HE WAS IN THE HIGHEST PART OF THE HORIZON

8  THEN HE APPROACHED AND CAME CLOSER

9  AND WAS AT A DISTANCE OF TWO BOW LENGTHS OR NEARER

10  SO DID GOD BY INSPIRATION CONVEY 
TO HIS SERVANT WHAT HE MEANT TO CONVEY

11  HIS HEART WAS NOT UNTRUE IN WHAT HE SAW IN ANY WAY

12  WILL YOU THEN DISPUTE WITH HIM 
CONCERNING WHAT WAS SEEN BY HIM?

13  FOR AT A SECOND DESCENT HE SAW HIM 

14  NEAR THE LOTE TREE WHICH NONE CAN PASS BEYOND IT

15  THE GARDEN OF ABODE IS NEAR IT

16  BEHOLD, THE LOTE TREE WAS SHROUDED

17  HIS SIGHT SWERVED NEVER
 NOR DID IT GO WRONG EVER

18  FOR TRULY HE DID SEE
THE SIGNS OF HIS LORD, THE GREATEST INDEED

19  HAVE YOU SEEN UZZA AND LAT?

20  AND ANOTHER THIRD GODDESS MANAT?

21  ARE FOR YOU THE MALES
AND FOR HIM THE FEMALES?

22  SUCH A DIVISION WOULD BE
MOST UNFAIR INDEED

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23  THESE ARE NOTHING BUT NAMES
WHICH YOU AND YOUR FATHERS HAVE NAMED
       
FOR WHICH GOD HAS SENT DOWN NO AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND WHAT THEIR OWN SOULS DESIRE
EVEN THOUGH THERE HAS ALREADY APPEARED
SIGNS FROM THEIR LORD AND GUIDANCE CLEAR

24  OR WILL MAN HAVE WHATEVER
THAT HE JUST HANKERS AFTER?

25  BUT IT IS TO GOD THAT BELONGS THE ENDING
AND THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS

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26  HOW MANY ANGELS IN THE HEAVENS WHOSE INTERCESSION
AVAILS NAUGHT EXCEPT AFTER GOD GIVES PERMISSION
TO WHOM HE PLEASES OF HIS SELECTION?

27  THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT IN THE HEREAFTER NAME 
THE ANGELS WITH FEMALE NAMES

28  BUT THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT FOR SURE
THEY FOLLOW NOTHING BUT CONJECTURE
AND TRUTH EXCELS OVER CONJECTURE 

29  THEREFORE SHUN THOSE WHO TURN AWAY FROM OUR REMINDER
AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS THEIR ONLY DESIRE

30  THAT IS AS FAR AS KNOWLEDGE WILL REACH THEM 
YOUR LORD KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO STRAY AMONG THEM
AND HE KNOWS BEST THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE AMONG THEM

31  TO GOD BELONGS ALL THAT IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH INDEED 
HE REWARDS THOSE WHO DO EVIL ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS 
AND THOSE WHO DO GOOD IN WHAT IS BEST OF THEIR DEEDS

32  THOSE WHO AVOID GREAT SINS AND SHAMEFUL INIQUITIES
THOSE WHO ONLY FALL INTO SMALL DELINQUENCIES
YOUR LORD IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS AND MERCY

AND WELL DOES HE KNOW YOU
WHEN OUT OF THE EARTH HE BRINGS YOU
AND WHEN IN YOUR MOTHER'S WOMBS ARE YOU 
SO JUSTIFY NOT YOURSELVES FOR  HE KNOWS TOO
WHO IT IS THAT GUARDS AGAINST EVIL AMONG YOU

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33  SEE THE ONE WHO TURNS BACK AND THEN

34  GIVES A LITTLE THEN HIS HEART HARDENS?

35  HAS HE KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNSEEN
SO THAT HE CAN SEE THE UNSEEN?

36  OR IS HE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE MESSAGES
THAT ARE IN THE BOOK OF MOSES

37  AND OF ABRAHAM WHO FULFILLED HIS PROMISES?

38  NAMELY THAT NO BURDEN BEARER 
CAN BEAR THE BURDEN OF ANOTHER

39  AND THAT MAN CAN HAVE NOTHING BUT WHAT HE STRIVES AFTER

40  THE FRUITS OF HIS STRIVING WILL SOON BE SEEN CLEARLY

41  THEN WILL HE BE REWARDED FULLY

42  AND TO YOUR LORD IS THE FINAL DESTINY

43  AND THE GRANTOR OF LAUGHTER AND TEARS IS HE

44  AND THE GRANTOR OF LIFE AND DEATH IS HE

45  AND THE CREATOR OF PAIRS, MALE AND FEMALE IS HE

46  FROM A SEED WHEN LODGED IN ITS PLACE FIRMLY

47  AND HE HAS PROMISED A SECOND CREATION 

48  AND IT IS HE WHO GIVES WEALTH AND SATISFACTION

49  AND HE IS THE LORD OF SIRIUS FOR CERTAIN

50  AND IT IS HE WHO DESTROYED FOR THEIR EVIL
THE POWERFUL ANCIENT AD PEOPLE

51  AND THE THAMUD NOR GAVE THEM A LEASE OF LIFE PERPETUAL

52  AND BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE
FOR THEY WERE UNJUST AND INSOLENT PEOPLE 

53  AND HE DESTROYED THE OVERTHROWN CITIES
OF SODOM AND GOMORRA FOR THEIR INIQUITIES

54  SO THAT RUINS UNKNOWN OVER THEM HAVE GROWN OVER

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55  WHICH OF THE GIFTS OF YOUR LORD WILL YOU BE A DISPUTER?

56  THIS IS A WARNER OF THE SERIES OF WARNERS

57  THE JUDGMENT EVER APPROACHING DRAWS NEAR

58  NO SOUL BUT GOD CAN LAY IT BARE

59  DO YOU THEN WONDER AT THIS REMINDER?

60  AND WILL YOU LAUGH AND NOT WEEP?

61  WASTING YOUR TIME IN VANITIES?

62  BUT TO GOD, BOW DOWN IN PROSTRATION 
AND IN SINCERE ADORATION

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