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 after?

P:  Or shall man have what he coveteth?

S:  Or shall man have what he wishes?

053.025 Y:  But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.

P:  But unto Allah belongeth the after (life), and the former.

S:  Nay! for Allah is the hereafter and the former (life).

053.026 Y:  How many-so-ever be the angels in the heavens, their intercession will avail nothing except after Allah has given leave for whom He pleases and that he is acceptable to Him.

P:  And how many angels are in the heavens whose intercession availeth naught save after Allah giveth leave to whom He chooseth and accepteth.