The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the heaven adorned with big stars. 1 by the promised day, 2 And [by] the witness and what is witnessed, 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 [Containing] the fire full of fuel, 5 When they sat by it (fire), 6 witnessing what they were doing. 7 and their revenge on them was only because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praised, 8 Who, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness over everything. 9 Surely for those who persecute believers, men and women, and do not repent afterwards, is the punishment of Hell, and the punishment of burning. 10 Lo! those who believe and do good works, theirs will be Gardens underneath which rivers flow. That is the Great Success. 11 Lo! the punishment of thy Lord is stern. 12 It is He who originates and repeats. 13 and He is the Forgiving and Loving One. 14 the Owner of the Throne, the Glorious One, 15 Effecter of what He intends. 16 Has the story of the hordes 17 of Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the unbelievers still belie, 19 Allah encompasses them all from behind. 20 Nay, but this [divine writ which they reject] is a discourse sublime, 21 In a guarded tablet. 22