عِندَها جَنَّةُ المَأوىٰ

Besides it is the Garden of Refuge.

إِذ يَغشَى السِّدرَةَ ما يَغشىٰ

When the Lote Tree was shrouded by what shrouded it.

ما زاغَ البَصَرُ وَما طَغىٰ

The sight didn’t swerve, nor did it overstep.

لَقَد رَأىٰ مِن آياتِ رَبِّهِ الكُبرىٰ

Indeed, he did see, of the Greatest Signs, of his Lord.

أَفَرَأَيتُمُ اللّاتَ وَالعُزّىٰ

Did you consider al-Lat and al-Uzza?

أَلَكُمُ الذَّكَرُ وَلَهُ الأُنثىٰ

So for you the male and for Him the female?

تِلكَ إِذًا قِسمَةٌ ضيزىٰ

What a bizarre distribution!

إِن هِيَ إِلّا أَسماءٌ سَمَّيتُموها أَنتُم وَآباؤُكُم ما أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بِها مِن سُلطانٍ ۚ إِن يَتَّبِعونَ إِلَّا الظَّنَّ وَما تَهوَى الأَنفُسُ ۖ وَلَقَد جاءَهُم مِن رَبِّهِمُ الهُدىٰ

These are nothing but names you named—you and your forefathers—without any authorization from God. They follow nothing except assumption and what the souls desire, even though guidance did come to them from their Lord.

أَم لِلإِنسانِ ما تَمَنّىٰ

Or is man to have whatever he desires?

فَلِلَّهِ الآخِرَةُ وَالأولىٰ

But to God belong the afterlife and the first.