وَالنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ ١

By the Star when it plunges,

مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ ٢

your comrade is not astray, neither errs,

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ ٣

nor speaks he out of caprice.

إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَىٰ ٤

This is naught but a revelation revealed,

عَلَّمَهُ شَدِيدُ الْقُوَىٰ ٥

taught him by one terrible in power,

ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَاسْتَوَىٰ ٦

very strong; he stood poised,

وَهُوَ بِالْأُفُقِ الْأَعْلَىٰ ٧

being on the higher horizon,

ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّىٰ ٨

then drew near and suspended hung,

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ ٩

two bows’ length away, or nearer,

فَأَوْحَىٰ إِلَىٰ عَبْدِهِ مَا أَوْحَىٰ ١٠

then revealed to his servant that he revealed.

مَا كَذَبَ الْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰ ١١

His heart lies not of what he saw;

أَفَتُمَارُونَهُ عَلَىٰ مَا يَرَىٰ ١٢

what, will you dispute with him what he sees?

وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَىٰ ١٣

Indeed, he saw him another time

عِندَ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنتَهَىٰ ١٤

by the Lote-Tree of the Boundary

عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ الْمَأْوَىٰ ١٥

nigh which is the Garden of the Refuge,

إِذْ يَغْشَى السِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَىٰ ١٦

when there covered the Lote-Tree that which covered;

مَا زَاغَ الْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ ١٧

his eye swerved not; nor swept astray.

لَقَدْ رَأَىٰ مِنْ آيَاتِ رَبِّهِ الْكُبْرَىٰ ١٨

Indeed, he saw one of the greatest signs of his Lord.

أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ اللَّاتَ وَالْعُزَّىٰ ١٩

Have you considered El-Lat and El-’Uzza

وَمَنَاةَ الثَّالِثَةَ الْأُخْرَىٰ ٢٠

and Manat the third, the other?