The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sky, (displaying) the Zodiacal Signs; 1 by the promised day, 2 And by the Day witnessing and the Day witnessed, 3 the people of the pit were destroyed 4 the fire abounding in fuel, 5 while they sat around it, 6 And they themselves are witnesses to what they were doing to the Muslims! 7 whom they hated for no other reason than that they believed in God, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy, 8 Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is a Witness of all things. 9 Those who persecute the believing men and women without repenting will suffer the torment of hell and that of the burning fire. 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 It is verily He who initiates and repeats. 13 And He is the Fogiving, the Loving, 14 in sublime almightiness enthroned, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Has the story reached you of the hosts, 17 Pharaoh and Thamood? 18 Nay, but the unbelievers still cry lies, 19 although Allah surrounds them. 20 Nay! it is a glorious Quran, 21 On a guarded tablet. 22