The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By heaven of the constellations, 1 and [then bethink thyself of] the promised Day, 2 By the witness and the witnessed! 3 Cursed were the companions of the trench 4 Of the fire (kept burning) with fuel, 5 when they were seated over it 6 and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers. 7 and their revenge on them was only because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praised, 8 and the One to whom belongs the heavens and the earth. God is the Witness of all things. 9 Those who persecute (or draw into temptation) the Believers, men and women, and do not turn in repentance, will have the Penalty of Hell: They will have the Penalty of the Burning Fire. 10 Verily those who believed and worked righteous works, theirs shall be Gardens whereunder the rivers flow; that is the supreme achievement. 11 Stern indeed is your Lord's punishment. 12 Surely it is He who originates, and brings again, 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 Owner of the throne, the Glorious 15 Who does as He pleases. 16 Has the story of the hordes 17 [Those of] Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 although Allah surrounds them. 20 Nay! it is a glorious Quran, 21 (Inscribed) in Al-Lauh Al-Mahfuz (The Preserved Tablet)! 22