Page 526 of the mushaf

1. By the star when it descends,

2. Your companion [i.e., Muḥammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,

3. Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.

4. It is not but a revelation revealed,

5. Taught to him by one intense in strength [i.e., Gabriel] -

6. One of soundness.¹⁵⁶² And he rose to [his] true form¹⁵⁶³

7. While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.¹⁵⁶⁴

8. Then he approached and descended

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

10. And he revealed to His Servant¹⁵⁶⁵ what he revealed [i.e., conveyed].

11. The heart¹⁵⁶⁶ did not lie [about] what it saw.

12. So will you dispute with him over what he saw?

13. And he certainly saw him in another descent¹⁵⁶⁷

14. At the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary -

15. Near it is the Garden of Refuge [i.e., Paradise] -

16. When there covered the Lote Tree that which covered [it].¹⁵⁶⁸

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

18. He certainly saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.

19. So have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?

20. And Manāt, the third - the other one?¹⁵⁶⁹

21. Is the male for you and for Him the female?

22. That, then, is an unjust division.¹⁵⁷⁰

23. They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allāh 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.

24. Or is there for man whatever he wishes?

25. Rather, to Allāh belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].

26. And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will not avail at all except [only] after Allāh has permitted [it] to whom He wills and approves.