The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
By the heaven adorned with big stars. 1 by the promised day, 2 and [of] Him who witnesses [all,] and [of] that unto which witness is borne [by Him]! 3 the people of the pit were destroyed 4 The people of the fuelled blazing fire. 5 while they sat around it, 6 Witnessing what they had done to the believers! 7 They had no other reason for hating them except that they believed in God the mighty, worthy of praise, 8 God to whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and God is Witness over everything. 9 Those who persecute the believing men and believing women, and then do not repent, will surely suffer the punishment of Hell, and the torment of burning. 10 As for the righteously striving believers, they will live in Paradise wherein streams flow. This is the greatest triumph. 11 The vengeance of God is terribly severe. 12 Surely He it is Who originates and reproduces, 13 And He is the Forgiving, and the Loving. 14 The Lord of the glorious Throne, 15 a sovereign doer of whatever He wills. 16 Did the story of the armies reach you? 17 Of Firon and Samood? 18 But they who disbelieve are in [persistent] denial, 19 And Allah, all unseen, surroundeth them. 20 Aye! it is a Recitation glorious, 21 (Inscribed) in a Tablet Preserved! 22