# Sura  53 - The Star

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> SURA LIII (53) - The Star       Mecca - 62 verses                  (XLVI - 69) 
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the star when it setteth,
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>        Your compatriot erreth not, nor is he led astray,
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>        Neither speaketh he from mere impulse.
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>        The Koran is no other than a revelation revealed to him:
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>        One terrible in power taught it him,
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>        Endued with wisdom.  With even balance stood he
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>        In the highest part of the horizon:
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>        Then came he nearer and approached,
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>        And was at the distance of two bows, or even closer, -
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> 53:10  And he revealed to his servant what he revealed.
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>        His heart falsified not what he saw.
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>        What! will ye then dispute with him as to what he saw?
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>        He had seen him also another time,
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>        Near the Sidra-tree, which marks the boundary.
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>        Near which is the garden of respose.
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>        When the Sidrah-tree was covered with what covered it,
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>        His eye turned not aside, nor did it warner:
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>        For he saw the greatest of the signs of his Lord.
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>        Do you see At-Lat and Al-Ozza,
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> 53:20  And Manat the third idol besides?
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>        What? shall ye have male progeny and God female?
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>        This were indeed an unfair partition!
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>        These are mere names: ye 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.
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>        Shall man have whatever he wisheth?
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>        The future and the present are in the hand of God:
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>        And many as our the Angels in the Heavens, their intercession shall be
> of no avail
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>        Until God hath permitted it to whom he shall please and will accept.
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>        Verily, it is they who believe not in the life to come, who name the
> angels with names of females:
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>        But herein they have no knowledge: they follow a mere conceit: and mere
> conceit can never take the place of truth.
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> 53:30  Withdraw then from him who turneth his back on our warning and desireth
> only this present life.
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>        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.
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>        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.
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>        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 ye were embryos in your mother's womb.
> Assert not then your own purity.  He best knoweth who feareth him.
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>        Hast thou considered him who turned his back?
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>        Who giveth little and is covetous?
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>        Is it that he hath the knowledge and vision of the secret things?
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>        Hath he not been told of what is in the pages of Moses?
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>        And of Abraham faithful to his pledge?
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>        That no burdened soul shall bear the burdens of another,
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> 53:40  And that nothing shall be reckoned to a man but that for which he hath
> made efforts:
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>        And that his efforts shall at last be seen in their true light:
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>        Then then he shall be recompensed with a most exact recompense,
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>        And that unto thy Lord is the term of all things,
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>        And that it is He who causeth to laugh and to weep,
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>        And that He causeth to die and maketh alive,
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>        And that He hath created the sexes, male and female,
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>        From the diffused germs of life,
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>        And that He enricheth and causeth to possess,
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> 53:50  And that He is the Lord of Sirius,
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>        And that it was He who destroyed the ancient Adines,
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>        And the people of Themoud and left not one survivor,
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>        And before them the people of Noah who were most wicked and most
> perverse.
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>        And it was He who destroyed the cities that were overthrown.
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>        So that that which covered them covered them.
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>        Which then of thy Lord's benefits wilt thou make a matter of doubt?
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>        He who warneth you is one of the warners of old.
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>        The day that must draw night, draweth nigh already: and yet none but God
> can reveal its time.
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>        Is it at these sayings that ye marvel?
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> 53:60  And that ye laugh and weep not?
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>        And that ye are triflers?
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>        Prostrate yourselves then to God and worship.
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> — *Sura  53 - The Star*