The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the heaven of the constellations! 1 And by the Promised Day. 2 And the bearer of witness and those against whom the witness is borne. 3 THEY DESTROY [but] themselves, they who would ready a pit 4 Of fire fuel-fed, 5 Lo! [With glee do] they contemplate that [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 Him, Whose is the dominion of heavens and the earth. And Allah is over everything a Witness. 9 Those who persecute the believing men and women without repenting will suffer the torment of hell and that of the burning fire. 10 For those who believe and do righteous deeds, will be Gardens; beneath which rivers flow: That is the great Salvation, (the fulfilment of all desires), 11 Stern indeed is your Lord's punishment. 12 Lo! He it is Who produceth, then reproduceth, 13 and He is the All-forgiving, the All-loving, 14 Owner of the throne, the Glorious 15 Always doing whatever He wills. 16 Did the story of the armies reach you? 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 Yet those who deny the truth persist in denial. 19 But God surrounds them from all sides. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Koran, 21 in a Guarded Tablet. 22