Sura LIII (53)
The Star
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the
star when it setteth,
Your
compatriot erreth not, nor is he led astray,
Neither
speaketh he from mere impulse.
The
Koran is no other than a revelation revealed to him:
One
terrible in power taught it him,
Endued
with wisdom. With even balance stood he
In the
highest part of the horizon:
Then
came he nearer and approached,
And
was at the distance of two bows, or even closer, --
53:10 And he revealed to his servant what he
revealed.
His
heart falsified not what he saw.
What!
will you then dispute with him as to what he saw?
He had
seen him also another time,
Near
the Sidra-tree, which marks the boundary.
Near
which is the garden of respose.
When
the Sidrah-tree was covered with what covered it,
His
eye turned not aside, nor did it warner:
For he
saw the greatest of the signs of his Lord.
Do you
see At-Lat and Al-Ozza,
53:20 And Manat the third idol besides?
What?
shall you have male progeny and God female?
This
were indeed an unfair partition!
These
are mere names: you and your fathers named
them thus: God hath not sent down any warranty
in their regard. A mere conceit and their own impulses do they follow. Yet hath
"the guidance" from their Lord come to them.
Shall
man have whatever he wisheth?
The
future and the present are in the hand of God:
And
many as our the Angels in the Heavens, their intercession shall be of no avail
Until
God hath permitted it to whom he shall please and will accept.
Verily,
it is they who believe not in the life to come, who name the angels with names
of females:
But
herein they have no knowledge: they follow a
mere conceit: and mere conceit can never take
the place of truth.
53:30 Withdraw then from him who turneth his
back on our warning and desireth only this present life.
This
is the sum of their knowledge. Truly thy Lord best knoweth him who erreth from
his way, and He best knoweth him who hath received guidance.
And
whatever is in the Heavens and in the Earth is God's, that he may reward those
who do evil according to their deeds: and
those who do good will He reward with good things.
To
those who avoid great crimes and scandals but commit only lighter faults,
verily, thy Lord will be diffuse of mercy. He well knew you when he produced
you out of the earth, and when you were embryos in your mother's womb. Assert
not then your own purity. He best knoweth who feareth him.
Hast
thou considered him who turned his back?
Who
giveth little and is covetous?
Is it
that he hath the knowledge and vision of the secret things?
Hath
he not been told of what is in the pages of Moses?
And of
Abraham faithful to his pledge?
That
no burdened soul shall bear the burdens of another,
53:40 And that nothing shall be reckoned to
a man but that for which he hath made efforts:
And
that his efforts shall at last be seen in their true light:
Then
then he shall be recompensed with a most exact recompense,
And
that unto thy Lord is the term of all things,
And
that it is He who causeth to laugh and to weep,
And
that He causeth to die and maketh alive,
And
that He hath created the sexes, male and female,
From
the diffused germs of life,
And
that He enricheth and causeth to possess,
53:50 And that He is the Lord of Sirius,
And
that it was He who destroyed the ancient Adines,
And
the people of Themoud and left not one survivor,
And
before them the people of Noah who were most wicked and most perverse.
And it
was He who destroyed the cities that were overthrown.
So
that that which covered them covered them.
Which
then of thy Lord's benefits wilt thou make a matter of doubt?
He who
warneth you is one of the warners of old.
The
day that must draw night, draweth nigh already:
and yet none but God can reveal its time.
Is it
at these sayings that you marvel?
53:60 And that you laugh and weep not?
And
that you are triflers?
Prostrate
yourselves then to God and worship.