The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sky with its constellations, 1 By the promised Day (of Judgment); 2 and by the witness and what is witnessed: 3 Cursed were the companions of the trench 4 Of the fuel-fed fire, 5 As they sat around it 6 And they themselves are witnesses to what they were doing to the Muslims! 7 and their revenge on them was only because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praised, 8 Whose kingdom spreads over the heavens and the earth. God is witness over everything. 9 Those who persecute the believing men and believing women, and then do not repent, will surely suffer the punishment of Hell, and the torment of burning. 10 Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, they shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow, that is the great achievement. 11 Lo! the punishment of thy Lord is stern. 12 It is verily He who initiates and repeats. 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 The Lord of the glorious Throne, 15 The Doer of whatever He wants. 16 Has the story of the armies reached you, 17 the armies of Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 In fact, the disbelievers had always rejected (Our revelations). 19 although Allah surrounds them. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Qur'an. 21 upon an imperishable tablet [inscribed]. 22