Surah: 53. an-Najm

Have you considered al-Lāt and al-‘Uzzā

and Manāt the third of the preceding two the other? al-ukhrā a derogatory qualification of the third one. These were stone idols which the idolaters worshipped and which they claimed interceded for them with God the first direct object of a-fa-ra’aytum ‘have you seen’ is al-Lāt and what has been supplemented thereto; the second direct […]

Are you to have males and He females?

That then would indeed be an unfair division! dīzān ‘unfair’ derives from dāzahu yadīzuhu to mean ‘he wronged him’ ‘he was unjust to him’.

The eye did not swerve on the part of the Prophet s nor did it go beyond the bounds that is to say his gaze did not turn away from the object of vision designated for it nor did it go beyond that object on that night.

Verily he saw in it some of the greatest signs of his Lord some of the most awesome of these signs. He thus saw from among the marvels of the Realm malakūt a green drape rafraf that obscured the entire horizon of the heaven and Gabriel with his six hundred wings.

The heart the heart of the Prophet did not deny read khadhaba or kadhdhaba what he saw with his own eyes of the image of Gabriel.

Will you then dispute with him will you then argue with him and hope to overwhelm him concerning what he saw? — an address to the idolaters who denied the Prophet’s s vision of Gabriel.

And verily he saw him in his true image another time

by the Lote-tree of the Ultimate Boundary when he was carried on the night journey up through the heavens — this lote-tree is a nabk thorn-tree that lies to the right of the Throne ‘arsh the tree beyond which no angel or any other being pass;