The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I CALL TO witness the sky (bespangled) with the signs of the Zodiac, 1 And [by] the promised Day 2 by the witness and the witnessed, 3 THEY DESTROY [but] themselves, they who would ready a pit 4 Fire supplied (abundantly) with fuel, 5 When they were sitting near it 6 Witnessing what they had done to the believers! 7 And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy, 8 To Him only belongs the kingship of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is a Witness over all things. 9 Lo! they who persecute believing men and believing women and repent not, theirs verily will be the doom of hell, and theirs the doom of burning. 10 (But) for those who believe and do good works, for them there are Gardens underneath which rivers flow that is the Great Victory! 11 Surely the might of your Lord is great. 12 It is He who originates and repeats. 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 Lord of the Throne of Glory, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Have you not heard about the stories of the armies 17 Of the Fir'awn and the Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 However, God encompassed their activities. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Koran, 21 On a guarded tablet. 22