{ "number": 53, "slug": "najm", "name": "An-Najm", "arabicName": "النجم", "meaning": "The Star", "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "REVELATION, RESPONSIBLE KNOWLEDGE & THE RETURN", "overview": "The messenger’s reception of revelation is affirmed before conjecture and unsupported worship are challenged. Earlier prophetic teaching centers personal responsibility, and signs of life, death, provision, and history lead to the closing call to prostrate.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_53.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=47" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=52" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=58" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=1" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=23" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=26" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=28" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=7" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=12" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=18" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=30" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=32" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=37" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=53&verse=42" }, { "title": "Classification and overview · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/53/info" }, { "title": "Aisha’s explanation of the vision · Muslim 177a", "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:177a" }, { "title": "Prostration after the recitation · Bukhari 4862", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4862" }, { "title": "622 CE Hijrah boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The setting star", "Your companion has not strayed", "The message is not personal desire", "Revelation inspired", "Taught by one of mighty power", "Strength and a clear appearance", "On the upper horizon", "An approach described", "Two bows’ length or nearer", "What was revealed", "The heart’s truthful witness", "Disputing the vision", "A second seeing", "The lote-tree of the boundary", "The Garden of Abode", "The tree enshrouded", "A gaze that did not overstep", "Among the Lord’s great signs", "Al-Lat and Al-‘Uzza named", "Manat, the third", "An inconsistent attribution", "The claimed division challenged", "Names without revealed authority", "Does desire establish entitlement?", "The first life and the hereafter", "Intercession is not independent power", "Naming angels without knowledge", "Conjecture cannot replace truth", "Turning away from remembrance", "The limits of their knowledge", "Conduct and a fitting response", "Vast mercy and no self-certification", "A person who turns away", "A little given, then withheld", "No private knowledge of the unseen", "The writings of Moses", "Abraham who fulfilled his trust", "No bearer carries another’s guilt", "The place of personal effort", "Effort will be seen", "A full recompense", "The final return", "Laughter and tears", "Death and life", "The paired human creation", "From a small beginning", "The second bringing forth", "Wealth and sufficiency", "The Lord of Sirius", "The earlier ‘Ad", "Thamud recalled", "Noah’s people before them", "The overturned community", "An overwhelming covering", "Which bounty can be disputed?", "A warning in an earlier succession", "The approaching Hour", "Its disclosure belongs to Allah", "A message treated as an astonishment", "Laughter without due concern", "Absorbed in amusement", "Prostrate and worship" ], "notes": [ "An oath by the star at its setting opens the chapter. The celestial image prepares an affirmation of revelation. It does not identify a dated meteor shower or require a modern photograph to establish the scene.", "The messenger is addressed as the audience’s companion, someone within their own experience. The charge of error is rejected. The verse prepares the distinction between personal invention and the revelation described in the following lines.", "The speech being defended is not presented as an expression of private desire. Read with the next verse, the focus is the revelation conveyed. The passage establishes its claimed source rather than a portrait of the speaker.", "The message is identified as inspired revelation. This answers the preceding concern about desire and invention. The following description develops how the messenger received it, while the illustrations leave the unseen agents and divine reality unpictured.", "A powerful teacher is described within the account of reception. The verse itself supplies a quality rather than a personal name. The later contextual note attributes Aisha’s explanation of the vision instead of silently resolving every pronoun.", "Strength and a clear appearance continue the description. The account concerns an encounter outside the ordinary classroom or gathering. The artwork uses the surrounding horizon without attempting to draw the unseen being involved in the revelation.", "The upper horizon locates the vision within its narrated scene. It is not an exact earthly viewing platform or a modern astronomical coordinate. The landscape supports the text while leaving the object of the vision unpictured.", "The account describes drawing near and descending. The brief statement continues the preceding vision rather than a new dated event. Its language is retained without turning the encounter into a physical illustration of the divine.", "Nearness is conveyed through the comparison of two bows’ length or less. The language gives the encounter intensity and closeness. It does not provide a measurable diagram by which the reader can reconstruct the unseen scene.", "Revelation reaches the servant as stated in the verse. The wording does not disclose every detail of that communication. The reader should preserve the text’s reserve rather than add an invented message, dialogue, or visual form.", "The heart did not deny or falsify what was seen. The verse affirms the integrity of the experience within the chapter’s defense of revelation. It does not turn every strong personal impression into an equivalent authoritative claim.", "The audience is challenged for disputing what the messenger saw. This continues the account’s defense of his testimony. The question belongs to this particular revelation narrative rather than a rule that every claimed vision must be accepted.", "Another seeing is recalled. In Muslim 177a, Aisha explains the related vision passages through Gabriel and rejects an ocular sight of Allah. This edition attributes her explanation rather than presenting an invented visible form of the encounter.", "The lote-tree stands at the utmost boundary within the vision account. It is not an identified tree growing at a present earthly location. The artwork may evoke a distant tree without claiming to portray the unseen site exactly.", "The Garden of Abode is placed near the lote-tree in the account. This belongs to the vision’s revealed setting. No geographical pin or earthly garden is offered as its verified location or exact visual equivalent.", "The description states that the tree was covered by what covered it, leaving the detail deliberately unspecified. The reading retains that reserve. It does not add colors, beings, or objects as facts beyond the words supplied.", "The gaze neither turned aside nor exceeded its limit. The verse presents steadiness within the encounter. It belongs to the chapter’s emphasis on reliable reception, not an invitation to invent further details of the vision.", "The account concludes by affirming the sight of great signs of the Lord. The wording directs attention to signs rather than a physical divine portrait. It closes the vision section before challenging the audience’s own unsupported claims.", "The audience is asked to consider two names associated with its worship. The question begins a contrast with the revealed account just given. The chapter names them without supplying an archaeological plan of their sanctuaries.", "A third name completes the sequence of objects of worship under examination. The verse is read with the questions that follow. The illustration does not invent a verified statue or sacred site for a name alone.", "The question confronts the audience’s assignment of sons to itself and daughters to Allah. It exposes the inconsistency of that claim. The argument is not a declaration that girls possess less human worth than boys.", "The division is called unfair within the preceding argument. The audience’s own assumptions fail to support what it attributes to Allah. The verse continues that critique rather than establishing a hierarchy of worth between human sexes.", "Inherited names, conjecture, and desire are contrasted with guidance that has arrived. Repetition across generations does not by itself establish a claim’s truth. The verse asks for authority beyond the confidence of those making the assertion.", "The question challenges the assumption that a person should receive whatever is desired. Desire can explain a claim without proving it. The following verse places both present life and the life to come beyond private ownership.", "Both the earlier life and the hereafter belong to Allah. The statement answers the preceding question about personal desire. The audience cannot make its preferred outcome authoritative simply by wishing for it or repeating it.", "Even angels’ intercession depends on divine permission and acceptance in the verse’s account. Their number or status does not make them autonomous authorities. The passage gives no visual description and no technique for controlling unseen help.", "The accusation concerns those assigning female names to angels without belief in the hereafter. It follows the earlier challenge to unsupported attributions. The verse’s subject is knowledge and religious assertion, rather than a criticism of women.", "The lack of knowledge is stated directly, and conjecture is denied the status of truth. This is a central distinction in the chapter. The listener is invited to examine the grounds of an assertion, not merely its familiarity.", "The messenger is told to withdraw from someone whose attention is confined to worldly life and who rejects remembrance. The verse recognizes a limit to persuasion. The final account of that person remains beyond the messenger’s control.", "The preceding attitude is described as the extent of their knowledge, while the Lord knows who strays and who is guided. The contrast checks human certainty. Outward confidence does not provide complete insight into another person’s standing.", "Divine ownership of heaven and earth frames recompense for wrongdoing and goodness. The verse reconnects the argument about knowledge with conduct. Claims about truth matter within a life whose actions also receive an account.", "The passage joins avoidance of major wrongdoing with vast mercy and knowledge of human beginnings. It then forbids declaring oneself pure. Awareness of weakness should encourage responsibility and hope, rather than public claims of guaranteed spiritual superiority.", "An unnamed person who turns away is brought before the audience. The chapter does not supply a personal name in this verse. The following conduct matters to the argument more than a speculative biographical identification.", "Giving a little and then withholding develops the example. The issue is the person’s response rather than the amount alone. The next question challenges whatever hidden assurance might be imagined to excuse that withdrawal.", "The person is asked whether knowledge of the unseen supplies a basis for the conduct just described. The question exposes unsupported confidence. It does not suggest that a reader can discover another person’s hidden destiny.", "The argument turns to what has been conveyed through the writings of Moses. The chapter places its moral teaching within an earlier prophetic inheritance. It does not identify a surviving manuscript or a dated location for that transmission.", "Abraham is recalled through faithful fulfillment, rendered by Pickthall as paying his debt. The phrase completes the reference to earlier prophetic teaching. No exact lifespan, grave, or portrait is supplied by this brief reminder.", "One burdened soul does not carry another’s burden. The statement establishes personal responsibility within the cited teaching. It does not erase the real influence people have upon one another, but prevents that influence from cancelling individual accountability.", "A person’s own striving is brought into the account. The verse gives effort moral significance instead of relying on someone else’s supposed standing. It does not promise that every earthly ambition will succeed exactly as intended.", "Human effort does not disappear beyond notice. The short assurance follows the emphasis on personal striving. Its significance includes actions that remain uncelebrated in public, while the full account belongs to a knowledge wider than human observation.", "The effort is followed by full recompense. This completes the sequence of responsibility, striving, and recognition. The verse presents an ultimate account rather than a guarantee that rewards and losses will be evenly visible during earthly life.", "The Lord is named as the final goal. This gathers the preceding account of effort and recompense into a direction of return. The verse does not identify an earthly endpoint that could be reached by ordinary travel.", "Laughter and weeping bring intimate human experience into the account of divine power. The paired emotions widen the perspective beyond public deeds alone. The verse does not require suppressing either ordinary joy or an honest response to loss.", "Giving death and giving life are named together. The chapter’s argument reaches the boundaries of human existence. The verse prepares the following reminder of origin and renewed creation without disclosing the time of any individual death.", "The creation of male and female is named within the sequence of life’s beginnings. The emphasis is the Creator’s power rather than social rank. The verse is not a comprehensive clinical account of every variation in human development.", "A drop poured forth supplies the image of a modest biological beginning. The verse continues the account of created life. It should not be expanded into a complete scientific model or an invented illustration of every developmental stage.", "Renewed creation is affirmed after the reminder of the first beginning. The order connects the possibility of return with power already acknowledged. The verse gives neither a calendar date nor a physical blueprint for resurrection.", "Enrichment and sufficiency are attributed to the Lord. The passage places material circumstances alongside life, death, and human feeling. It does not make a person’s present wealth a complete measure of moral worth or divine approval.", "Sirius is named under the Lord’s authority, directing attention from a brilliant star to its Creator. The verse gives the star a place within the argument. It is not an instruction to worship it or predict fortunes.", "The account turns to the destruction of the earlier ‘Ad. This adds a historical warning to the signs of power already named. The verse provides no exact date, verified ruin, or complete account of that community’s history.", "Thamud follows in the sequence of earlier warnings. The compressed reference assumes the significance of its fate within the Quranic message. The reader does not identify later monuments as theirs without independent evidence the verse itself does not supply.", "Noah’s people are recalled as earlier and deeply unjust. The statement supplies a relative relationship within the chapter’s warnings. It is not an absolute chronology from which precise ancient years or lifespans can be calculated.", "The overturned community is named in Pickthall’s rendering as Al-Mu’tafikah. The brief reference supplies no location here. Its purpose is to continue the warnings, not to certify a particular modern excavation as the narrated site.", "The covering that overtook them is expressed without added detail. The reading preserves the force and reserve of that wording. It does not invent a specific geological process or a dated archaeological layer to explain the scene.", "A question about the Lord’s bounties gathers the preceding signs and warnings. The audience is asked to consider its response to the whole account. Recognition includes power and responsibility as well as gifts that are immediately pleasant.", "The present warning belongs within the succession of earlier warners. This reconnects the messenger’s task with the prophetic writings already mentioned. The verse emphasizes continuity of responsibility without supplying a complete numbered list of all prophets.", "The Hour is described as near. Its certainty and urgency matter to the chapter’s appeal, but no date is revealed. The verse cannot support a countdown tied to a contemporary event or a numerical prediction.", "Pickthall renders the verse as saying that none besides Allah can disclose it. The statement limits human claims concerning the Hour. It completes the warning without allowing the reader to announce its hidden timetable.", "The audience is asked about its reaction to this statement. Astonishment alone is not the attentive response sought. The next verses sharpen the contrast between the message’s seriousness and a reaction of amusement or distraction.", "Laughter is contrasted with weeping in the response to the warning. The verse concerns the audience’s dismissive reception of this message. It does not condemn every form of ordinary joy or make constant sadness a religious ideal.", "Amusement completes the portrait of distracted refusal. The short verse depends on the preceding questions about the audience’s response. Its position prepares the closing call to a deliberate act of worship rather than continued avoidance.", "The chapter ends by calling for prostration and worship. Bukhari 4862 records a prostration after its recitation, with the surrounding audience joining. The verse’s prostration mark remains visible while being excluded from individual word meanings." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 18, "title": "The star and a faithfully received revelation", "summary": "The messenger’s integrity and the vision are affirmed through an account of reception, nearness, and great signs.", "reflection": "What distinguishes a trustworthy testimony from an unsupported claim?" }, { "start": 19, "end": 32, "title": "Conjecture, inherited names, and the limits of self-praise", "summary": "Claims about objects of worship and angels face questions about knowledge, while vast mercy is joined with a warning against declaring oneself pure.", "reflection": "Which belief or judgment would benefit from examining its evidence more carefully?" }, { "start": 33, "end": 55, "title": "Each person’s effort and the signs surrounding life", "summary": "The teaching associated with Moses and Abraham leads from personal responsibility to creation, emotion, provision, and earlier communities.", "reflection": "What responsibility remains yours even when you cannot control the full outcome?" }, { "start": 56, "end": 62, "title": "Receive the warning through worship", "summary": "The approaching Hour and limits of human knowledge challenge distraction, ending with a call to prostration.", "reflection": "How can a moment of sincere attention interrupt an accustomed distraction?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Earlier prophetic teaching · no absolute dates supplied", "year": null, "body": "Moses and Abraham are named as bearers of earlier teaching, while Noah’s people precede the communities recalled after them. The chapter supplies no complete ancient chronological table.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/053.htm" }, { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "An-Najm is classified as Makkan. The year marks the Hijrah period boundary, not an exact date for its revelation or the vision it recounts.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "The vision · an attributed explanation", "year": null, "body": "Muslim 177a preserves Aisha’s explanation of the related vision passages through Gabriel. The report is identified as her account rather than a license to picture divine reality.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:177a" }, { "title": "A prostration after recitation · report undated", "year": null, "body": "Bukhari 4862 records a prostration after the chapter’s recitation and the response of the surrounding audience. This reader does not supply an exact calendar date.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4862" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · broad setting of the address", "body": "The chapter’s Makkan classification supplies the historical setting. A courtyard or night horizon is illustrative; no precise original recitation site is verified here.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/53/info", "image": 3 }, { "id": "horizon", "name": "The upper horizon · a setting within the vision", "body": "Verses 7–18 describe a horizon, a boundary tree, and great signs. The scene is not mapped onto an earthly tree or claimed observation platform.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/053.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "names", "name": "Al-Lat, Al-‘Uzza, and Manat · names in the argument", "body": "The text names objects of worship while challenging their claimed authority. It does not provide sanctuary coordinates or verify a surviving statue, so the imagery avoids an invented archaeological identification.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/053.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "sirius", "name": "Sirius within the night sky", "body": "The named star appears in verse 49 under the Lord’s authority. The sky scene supports that reading without turning the verse into astrology or a dated astronomical prediction.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/053.htm", "image": 2 } ], "people": [ { "id": "messenger", "title": "Muhammad · the companion who conveys revelation", "body": "The audience is asked to consider its familiar companion’s testimony. The chapter affirms reception and conveyance while ending in worship; no prophet portrait is supplied.", "verse": 2 }, { "id": "aisha", "title": "Aisha · explaining the vision passages", "body": "Muslim 177a records her explanation that the related sightings concern Gabriel, alongside rejection of an ocular sight of Allah. The reader attributes this explanation and leaves the unseen unpictured.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:177a", "label": "Read the primary report" }, { "id": "moses-abraham", "title": "Moses and Abraham · earlier teaching recalled", "body": "Their writings introduce the principles that one soul does not bear another’s burden and that personal effort will be seen. No exact ancient dates, graves, or portraits are asserted.", "verse": 36 }, { "id": "unnamed-giver", "title": "The person who gave a little and withdrew", "body": "Verses 33–35 describe conduct without providing a name. The chapter challenges the supposed knowledge behind that choice; the reader does not add an unsourced identity.", "verse": 34 }, { "id": "audience", "title": "The hearers called from distraction to worship", "body": "The closing questions address the way the message is received. Bukhari 4862 reports a prostration following the recitation, giving an attributed example of a collective response.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4862", "label": "Read the prostration report" } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan defense of revelation", "body": "The introduction places the chapter in the Makkan mission and highlights its defense of the messenger’s truthful reception. This reader keeps the broad period without declaring a precise date for each scene.", "source": "https://quran.com/53/info" }, { "title": "Aisha’s account and visual restraint", "body": "Muslim 177a connects the related vision passages with Gabriel in Aisha’s explanation. That attribution informs the notes; neither Gabriel, a prophet, nor divine reality is drawn into the landscape.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:177a" }, { "title": "A remembered act of prostration", "body": "Bukhari 4862 records prostration after the recitation of An-Najm. The account is kept distinct from an invented reconstruction of the entire audience or a precise date unsupported by the report.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4862" }, { "title": "Personal responsibility in an inherited teaching", "body": "The reference to Moses and Abraham leads into individual burdens, effort, and recompense. The chapter presents those principles before its signs of power, keeping responsibility connected with the larger account of return.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/053.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan. The 622 CE marker is a period boundary, not a precise revelation date. Aisha’s explanation and the prostration report are individually attributed. The horizon and boundary tree are not asserted earthly sites; no divine, angelic, or prophetic figure is depicted.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "وَٱلنَّجْمِ إِذَا هَوَىٰ", "translation": "By the star when it descends," }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "مَا ضَلَّ صَاحِبُكُمْ وَمَا غَوَىٰ", "translation": "Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred," }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰٓ", "translation": "Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْىٌۭ يُوحَىٰ", "translation": "It is not but a revelation revealed," }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "عَلَّمَهُۥ شَدِيدُ ٱلْقُوَىٰ", "translation": "Taught to him by one intense in strength -" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "ذُو مِرَّةٍۢ فَٱسْتَوَىٰ", "translation": "One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَهُوَ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ", "translation": "While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "ثُمَّ دَنَا فَتَدَلَّىٰ", "translation": "Then he approached and descended" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ", "translation": "And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "فَأَوْحَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ مَآ أَوْحَىٰ", "translation": "And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "مَا كَذَبَ ٱلْفُؤَادُ مَا رَأَىٰٓ", "translation": "The heart did not lie [about] what it saw." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "أَفَتُمَٰرُونَهُۥ عَلَىٰ مَا يَرَىٰ", "translation": "So will you dispute with him over what he saw?" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَىٰ", "translation": "And he certainly saw him in another descent" }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "عِندَ سِدْرَةِ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ", "translation": "At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰٓ", "translation": "Near it is the Garden of Refuge -" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "إِذْ يَغْشَى ٱلسِّدْرَةَ مَا يَغْشَىٰ", "translation": "When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it]." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "مَا زَاغَ ٱلْبَصَرُ وَمَا طَغَىٰ", "translation": "The sight [of the Prophet] did not swerve, nor did it transgress [its limit]." }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "لَقَدْ رَأَىٰ مِنْ ءَايَٰتِ رَبِّهِ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰٓ", "translation": "He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱللَّٰتَ وَٱلْعُزَّىٰ", "translation": "So have you considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza?" }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَمَنَوٰةَ ٱلثَّالِثَةَ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰٓ", "translation": "And Manat, the third - the other one?" }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "أَلَكُمُ ٱلذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ", "translation": "Is the male for you and for Him the female?" }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "تِلْكَ إِذًۭا قِسْمَةٌۭ ضِيزَىٰٓ", "translation": "That, then, is an unjust division." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّآ أَسْمَآءٌۭ سَمَّيْتُمُوهَآ أَنتُمْ وَءَابَآؤُكُم مَّآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَٰنٍ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ وَمَا تَهْوَى ٱلْأَنفُسُ ۖ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّن رَّبِّهِمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ", "translation": "They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allah 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." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَمْ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ مَا تَمَنَّىٰ", "translation": "Or is there for man whatever he wishes?" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "فَلِلَّهِ ٱلْءَاخِرَةُ وَٱلْأُولَىٰ", "translation": "Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and the first [life]." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "۞ وَكَم مِّن مَّلَكٍۢ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ لَا تُغْنِى شَفَٰعَتُهُمْ شَيْـًٔا إِلَّا مِنۢ بَعْدِ أَن يَأْذَنَ ٱللَّهُ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَيَرْضَىٰٓ", "translation": "And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will not avail at all except [only] after Allah has permitted [it] to whom He wills and approves." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْءَاخِرَةِ لَيُسَمُّونَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ تَسْمِيَةَ ٱلْأُنثَىٰ", "translation": "Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter name the angels female names," }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "وَمَا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِن يَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا ٱلظَّنَّ ۖ وَإِنَّ ٱلظَّنَّ لَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱلْحَقِّ شَيْـًۭٔا", "translation": "And they have thereof no knowledge. They follow not except assumption, and indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "فَأَعْرِضْ عَن مَّن تَوَلَّىٰ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَلَمْ يُرِدْ إِلَّا ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا", "translation": "So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our message and desires not except the worldly life." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "ذَٰلِكَ مَبْلَغُهُم مِّنَ ٱلْعِلْمِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبِيلِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱهْتَدَىٰ", "translation": "That 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." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَلِلَّهِ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسَٰٓـُٔوا۟ بِمَا عَمِلُوا۟ وَيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا۟ بِٱلْحُسْنَى", "translation": "And to Allah 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] -" }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَٰٓئِرَ ٱلْإِثْمِ وَٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ إِلَّا ٱللَّمَمَ ۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَٰسِعُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ۚ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِكُمْ إِذْ أَنشَأَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَإِذْ أَنتُمْ أَجِنَّةٌۭ فِى بُطُونِ أُمَّهَٰتِكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تُزَكُّوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنِ ٱتَّقَىٰٓ", "translation": "Those 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; He is most knowing of who fears Him." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "أَفَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى تَوَلَّىٰ", "translation": "Have you seen the one who turned away" }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "وَأَعْطَىٰ قَلِيلًۭا وَأَكْدَىٰٓ", "translation": "And gave a little and [then] refrained?" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "أَعِندَهُۥ عِلْمُ ٱلْغَيْبِ فَهُوَ يَرَىٰٓ", "translation": "Does he have knowledge of the unseen, so he sees?" }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "أَمْ لَمْ يُنَبَّأْ بِمَا فِى صُحُفِ مُوسَىٰ", "translation": "Or has he not been informed of what was in the scriptures of Moses" }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَإِبْرَٰهِيمَ ٱلَّذِى وَفَّىٰٓ", "translation": "And [of] Abraham, who fulfilled [his obligations] -" }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "أَلَّا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌۭ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ", "translation": "That no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another" }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ", "translation": "And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives" }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "وَأَنَّ سَعْيَهُۥ سَوْفَ يُرَىٰ", "translation": "And that his effort is going to be seen -" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "ثُمَّ يُجْزَىٰهُ ٱلْجَزَآءَ ٱلْأَوْفَىٰ", "translation": "Then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense" }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "وَأَنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلْمُنتَهَىٰ", "translation": "And that to your Lord is the finality" }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَضْحَكَ وَأَبْكَىٰ", "translation": "And that it is He who makes [one] laugh and weep" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَمَاتَ وَأَحْيَا", "translation": "And that it is He who causes death and gives life" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥ خَلَقَ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰ", "translation": "And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "مِن نُّطْفَةٍ إِذَا تُمْنَىٰ", "translation": "From a sperm-drop when it is emitted" }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَأَنَّ عَلَيْهِ ٱلنَّشْأَةَ ٱلْأُخْرَىٰ", "translation": "And that [incumbent] upon Him is the next creation" }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ أَغْنَىٰ وَأَقْنَىٰ", "translation": "And that it is He who enriches and suffices" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلشِّعْرَىٰ", "translation": "And that it is He who is the Lord of Sirius" }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَأَنَّهُۥٓ أَهْلَكَ عَادًا ٱلْأُولَىٰ", "translation": "And that He destroyed the first [people of] 'Aad" }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَثَمُودَا۟ فَمَآ أَبْقَىٰ", "translation": "And Thamud - and He did not spare [them] -" }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍۢ مِّن قَبْلُ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ هُمْ أَظْلَمَ وَأَطْغَىٰ", "translation": "And the people of Noah before. Indeed, it was they who were [even] more unjust and oppressing." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ أَهْوَىٰ", "translation": "And the overturned towns He hurled down" }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "فَغَشَّىٰهَا مَا غَشَّىٰ", "translation": "And covered them by that which He covered." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكَ تَتَمَارَىٰ", "translation": "Then which of the favors of your Lord do you doubt?" }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "هَٰذَا نَذِيرٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلنُّذُرِ ٱلْأُولَىٰٓ", "translation": "This [Prophet] is a warner like the former warners." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "أَزِفَتِ ٱلْءَازِفَةُ", "translation": "The Approaching Day has approached." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "لَيْسَ لَهَا مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ كَاشِفَةٌ", "translation": "Of it, [from those] besides Allah, there is no remover." }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "أَفَمِنْ هَٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ تَعْجَبُونَ", "translation": "Then at this statement do you wonder?" }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلَا تَبْكُونَ", "translation": "And you laugh and do not weep" }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "وَأَنتُمْ سَٰمِدُونَ", "translation": "While you are proudly sporting?" }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "فَٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِلَّهِ وَٱعْبُدُوا۟ ۩", "translation": "So prostrate to Allah and worship [Him]." } ], "glosses": [ [ "By the star", "when", "it goes down," ], [ "Not", "has strayed", "your companion", "and not", "has he erred," ], [ "And not", "he speaks", "from", "the desire." ], [ "Not", "it", "(is) except", "a revelation", "revealed," ], [ "Has taught him", "the (one) mighty", "(in) power," ], [ "Possessor of soundness.", "Possessor of soundness.", "And he rose," ], [ "While he", "(was) in the horizon -", "the highest." ], [ "Then", "he approached", "and came down," ], [ "And was", "(at) a distance", "(of) two bow-(lengths)", "or", "nearer." ], [ "So he revealed", "to", "His slave", "what", "he revealed." ], [ "Not", "lied", "the heart", "what", "it saw." ], [ "Then will you dispute with him", "about", "what", "he saw?" ], [ "And certainly", "he saw him", "(in) descent", "another," ], [ "Near", "(the) Lote Tree", "(of) the utmost boundary," ], [ "Near it", "(is the) Garden", "(of) Abode." ], [ "When", "covered", "the Lote Tree", "what", "covers," ], [ "Not", "swerved", "the sight", "and not", "it transgressed." ], [ "Certainly", "he saw", "of", "(the) Signs", "(of) his Lord", "the Greatest." ], [ "So have you seen", "the Lat", "and the Uzza," ], [ "And Manat", "the third,", "the other?" ], [ "Is for you", "the male", "and for Him", "the female?" ], [ "This,", "then,", "(is) a division", "unfair." ], [ "Not", "they", "(are) except", "names", "you have named them,", "you", "and your forefathers,", "not", "has Allah sent down", "has Allah sent down", "for it", "any", "authority.", "Not", "they follow", "except", "assumption", "and what", "desire", "the(ir) souls.", "And certainly", "has come to them", "from", "their Lord", "the guidance." ], [ "Or", "(is) for man", "what", "he wishes?" ], [ "But for Allah", "(is) the last", "and the first." ], [ "And how many", "of", "(the) Angels", "in", "the heavens", "not", "will avail", "their intercession", "anything", "except", "after", "after", "[that]", "Allah has given permission", "Allah has given permission", "for whom", "He wills", "and approves." ], [ "Indeed,", "those who", "(do) not", "believe", "in the Hereafter,", "surely they name", "the Angels", "name(s)", "(of) female," ], [ "And not", "for them", "about it", "any", "knowledge.", "Not", "they follow", "but", "assumption.", "And indeed,", "the assumption", "(does) not", "avail", "against", "the truth", "anything." ], [ "So turn away", "from", "(him) who", "turns away", "from", "Our Reminder", "and not", "he desires", "except", "the life", "(of) the world." ], [ "That", "(is) their sum", "of", "knowledge.", "Indeed,", "your Lord", "(is) He (Who)", "knows best", "(he) who", "strays", "from", "His Path,", "and He", "knows best", "(he) who", "is guided." ], [ "And for Allah", "(is) whatever", "(is) in", "the heavens", "and whatever", "(is) in", "the earth", "that He may recompense", "those who", "do evil", "with what", "they have done", "and recompense", "those who", "do good", "with the best." ], [ "Those who", "avoid", "great", "sins", "and the immoralities", "except", "the small faults;", "indeed,", "your Lord", "(is) vast", "(in) forgiveness.", "He", "(is) most knowing about you", "(is) most knowing about you", "when", "He produced you", "from", "the earth", "and when", "you (were)", "fetuses", "in", "(the) wombs", "(of) your mothers.", "So (do) not", "ascribe purity", "(to) yourselves.", "He", "knows best", "(he) who", "fears." ], [ "Did you see", "the one who", "turned away" ], [ "And gave", "a little,", "and withheld?" ], [ "Is with him", "(the) knowledge", "(of) the unseen,", "so he", "sees?" ], [ "Or", "not", "he was informed", "with what", "(was) in", "(the) Scriptures", "(of) Musa," ], [ "And Ibrahim,", "who", "fulfilled?" ], [ "That not", "will bear", "a bearer of burdens", "(the) burden", "(of) another," ], [ "And that", "is not", "for man", "except", "what", "he strives (for)," ], [ "And that", "his striving", "will soon", "be seen." ], [ "Then", "he will be recompensed for it", "the recompense", "the fullest." ], [ "And that", "to", "your Lord", "(is) the final goal." ], [ "And that He", "[He]", "makes (one) laugh", "and makes (one) weep." ], [ "And that He", "[He]", "causes death", "and gives life." ], [ "And that He", "created", "the pairs,", "the male", "and the female" ], [ "From", "a semen-drop", "when", "it is emitted." ], [ "And that", "upon Him", "(is) the bringing forth", "another." ], [ "And that He", "[He]", "enriches", "and suffices." ], [ "And that He", "[He]", "(is the) Lord", "(of) Sirius" ], [ "And that He", "destroyed", "Aad", "the first," ], [ "And Thamud,", "so not", "He spared," ], [ "And (the) people", "(of) Nuh", "before.", "before.", "Indeed, they", "they were", "they were", "more unjust", "and more rebellious." ], [ "And the overturned cities", "He overthrew" ], [ "So covered them", "what", "covered." ], [ "Then which (of)", "the Favors", "(of) your Lord,", "will you doubt?" ], [ "This", "(is) a warner,", "from", "the warners", "the former." ], [ "Has approached", "the Approaching Day." ], [ "Not is", "for it", "besides", "besides", "Allah", "any remover." ], [ "Then of", "this", "statement", "you wonder?" ], [ "And you laugh", "and (do) not", "weep," ], [ "While you", "amuse (yourselves)?" ], [ "So prostrate", "to Allah", "and worship (Him)." ] ], "juz": 27 }