1. By the Star when it setteth,

2. Your comrade erreth not, nor is deceived;

3. Nor doth he speak of his own desire.

4. It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired,

5. Which one of mighty powers hath taught him,

6. One vigorous; and he grew clear to view

7. When he was on the uppermost horizon.

8. Then he drew nigh and came down

9. Till he was distant two bows' length or even nearer,

10. And He revealed unto His slave that which He revealed.

11. The heart lied not in seeing what it saw.

12. Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he seeth?

13. And verily he saw him yet another time

14. By the lote-tree of the utmost boundary,

15. Nigh unto which is the Garden of Abode.

16. When that which shroudeth did enshroud the lote-tree,

17. The eye turned not aside nor yet was overbold.

18. Verily he saw one of the greater revelations of his Lord.

19. Have ye thought upon Elath and Ozzoh

20. And Menoth, the third, the other?

21. Are yours the males and His the females?

22. That indeed were an unfair division!

23. They are but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for which God hath revealed no warrant. They follow but a guess and that which they themselves desire. And now the guidance from their Lord hath come unto them.

24. Or shall man have what he coveteth?

25. But unto God belongeth the after life, and the former.

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