The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sky with its constellations, 1 By the Promised Day! 2 By the witness and the witnessed! 3 Cursed were the companions of the trench 4 [Containing] the fire full of fuel, 5 They sat by it 6 witnessing what they were doing. 7 They had no other reason for hating them except that they believed in God the mighty, worthy of praise, 8 Him unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is of all things the Witness. 9 Those who persecuted the believing men and women and never repented, there is for them the punishment of Gehenna (Hell), and for them the punishment of the burning. 10 As for those who believed and acted righteously, theirs shall be Gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great triumph. 11 The grip of your Lord is indeed severe, 12 It is verily He who initiates and repeats. 13 And He is the Forgiving, and the Loving. 14 Master of the Honourable Throne. 15 Effecter of what He intends. 16 Has there reached you the story of the soldiers - 17 Pharaoh and Thamood? 18 Yet the unbelievers still belie, 19 but all the while God encompasses them [with His knowledge and might] without their being aware of it. 20 What is revealed to you is certainly a glorious Quran 21 upon an imperishable tablet [inscribed]. 22