The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By oath of the heaven which contains the constellations. 1 by the promised day, 2 and by the witness and what is witnessed: 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 the fire abounding in fuel, 5 When they sat by it, 6 witnessing what they were doing. 7 whom they hate for no other reason than that they believe in God, the Almighty, the One to whom all praise is due, 8 Whose kingdom spreads over the heavens and the earth. God is witness over everything. 9 Those who persecute the believers, men and women, and then have not repented, there awaits them the chastisement of Gehenna, and there awaits them the chastisement of the burning. 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 He it is Who originates and reproduces, 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 Lord of the Throne, the Glorious, 15 Who does as He pleases. 16 Has there reached you the story of the soldiers - 17 of Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 In fact the disbelievers are in denial. 19 And Allah, all unseen, surroundeth them. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Qur'an. 21 In the Preserved Tablet. 22