The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the sky with its constellations, 1 And by the Promised Day. 2 And [by] the witness and what is witnessed, 3 Cursed were the people of the ditch (the story of the Boy and the King). 4 by a burning fire 5 Lo! [With glee do] they contemplate that [fire,] 6 And to that which they did to the believers were witnesses. 7 and their revenge on them was only because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praised, 8 [and] to whom the dominion of the heavens and the earth belongs. But God is witness unto everything! 9 Lo! they who persecute believing men and believing women and repent not, theirs verily will be the doom of hell, and theirs the doom of burning. 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 It is verily He who initiates and repeats. 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 Lord of the Throne of Glory, 15 Performer of what He desires. 16 Has the story reached thee, of the forces- 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 But they who disbelieve are in [persistent] denial, 19 And Allah encompasses them on every side. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Qur'an. 21 in a guarded tablet. 22