The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By heaven of the constellations, 1 And by the Day promised, 2 by the Witness and the witnessed, 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 by a burning fire 5 while they sat around it, 6 And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. 7 And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!- 8 Whose kingdom spreads over the heavens and the earth. God is witness over everything. 9 Those who persecuted the believing men and women and never repented, there is for them the punishment of Gehenna (Hell), and for them the punishment of the burning. 10 Indeed those who believed and did good deeds – for them are Gardens beneath which rivers flow; this is the great success. 11 Lo! the punishment of thy Lord is stern. 12 Behold, it is He who creates [man] in the first instance, and He [it is who] will bring him forth anew. 13 And He is the Fogiving, the Loving, 14 Lord of the Arsh, the Glorious, 15 Always doing whatever He wills. 16 Has the story reached thee, of the forces- 17 [Those of] Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the unbelievers still belie, 19 But Allah doth encompass them from behind! 20 Nay! it is a glorious Quran, 21 in a guarded tablet. 22