te with him as to what he saw?

053.013
Y: For indeed he saw him at a second descent,

P: And verily he saw him yet another time

S: And certainly he saw him in another descent,

053.014
Y: Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass:

P: By the lote-tree of the utmost boundary,

S: At the farthest lote-tree;

053.015
Y: Near it is the Garden of Abode.

P: Nigh unto which is the Garden of Abode.

S: Near which is the garden, the place to be resorted to.

053.016
Y: Behold, the Lote-tree was shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!)

P: When that which shroudeth did enshroud the lote-tree,

S: When that which covers covered the lote-tree;

053.017
Y: (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!

P: The eye turned not aside nor yet was overbold.

S: The eye did not turn aside, nor did it exceed the limit.

053.018
Y: For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest!

P: Verily he saw one of the greater revelations of his Lord.

S: Certainly he saw of the greatest signs of his Lord.

053.019
Y: Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza,

P: Have ye thought upon Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza

S: Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza,

053.020
Y: And another, the third (goddess), Manat?

P: And Manat, the third, the other?

S: And Manat, the third, the last?

053.021
Y: What! for you the male sex, and for Him, the female?

P: Are yours the males and His the females?

S: What! for you the males and for Him the females!

053.022
Y: Behold, such would be indeed a division most unfair!

P: That indeed were an unfair division!

S: This indeed is an unjust division!

053.023
Y: These are nothing but names which ye have devised,- ye and your
fathers,- for which Allah has sent down no authority (whatever). They
follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even
though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!

P: They are but names which ye have named, ye and your fathers, for
which Allah 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.

S: They are naught but names which you have named, you and your fathers;
Allah has not sent for them any authority. They follow naught but
conjecture and the low desires which (their) souls incline to; and
certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord.

053.024
Y: Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers aft