The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the heaven of the constellations! 1 By the Promised Day! 2 And by the Day witnessing and the Day witnessed, 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 of fire fiercely burning [for all who have attained to faith]! 5 when they were seated over it 6 and were witnessing what they did to the believers. 7 They had naught against them save that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Owner of Praise, 8 Whose kingdom spreads over the heavens and the earth. God 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 [But,] verily, they who attain to faith and do righteous deeds shall [in the life to come] have gardens through which running waters flow - that triumph most great! 11 Indeed, the seizing of your Lord is severe. 12 Indeed, it is He who originates [creation] and repeats. 13 and He is the All-forgiving, the All-loving, 14 The Lord of the glorious Throne, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Has the story of the armies reached you, 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 However, God encompassed their activities. 20 Nay; but this is a glorious Qur'an, 21 in a Guarded Tablet. 22