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 by the promised day, 2 by the witness and the witnessed, 3 Accursed be the People of the Ditch! 4 the fire abounding in fuel, 5 When they sat by it, 6 And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. 7 whom they hate for no other reason than that they believe in God, the Almighty, the One to whom all praise is due, 8 Who, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness over everything. 9 Verily, as for those who persecute believing men and believing women, and thereafter do not repent, hell's suffering awaits them: yea, suffering through fire awaits them! 10 Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds will have gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great attainment. 11 Indeed, the seizing of your Lord is severe. 12 Indeed it is He Who initiates and redoes. 13 And He is the Fogiving, the Loving, 14 the Owner of the Throne, the Glorious One, 15 Effecter of what He intends. 16 Did the story of the armies reach you? 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 Yet the unbelievers still belie, 19 And Allah is after them, has them surrounded. 20 Nay! it is a glorious Quran, 21 On a guarded tablet. 22