Editing An-Najm (section)

===1-18  legitimacy of Muhammad’s prophetic vision===
[[File:Surat An-Najm.jpg|left|thumb|The last line of An-Najm: "So prostrate to Allah and worship [Him]."]]
The first eighteen verses of this surah are considered to be some of the earliest revelations of the [[Quran]]. These verses address the legitimacy of Muhammad's prophetic visions. The surah begins with the divine voice swearing by the collapsing star that "Your companion," referring to Muhammad, has not gone mad, nor does he speak out of his desire. The passage evokes the process of vision by tracing the movement along the highest horizon and then coming down and drawing near to the distance of "two bows" length. The passage ends with the affirmation of the validity of the vision by stating that the heart of the prophet "did not lie in what it saw."