The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By the sky containing great stars 1 And by the Day promised, 2 And by the witness and that whereunto he beareth testimony, 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 The people of the fuelled blazing fire. 5 when they were seated over it 6 and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers. 7 whom they hated for no other reason than that they believed in God, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy, 8 Whose kingdom spreads over the heavens and the earth. God is witness over everything. 9 Indeed, those who have tortured the believing men and believing women and then have not repented will have the punishment of Hell, and they will have the punishment 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 The grip of your Lord is severe indeed! 12 Surely He it is Who originates and reproduces, 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 the Owner of the Throne, the Glorious One, 15 Doer (without let) of all that He intends. 16 Have you not heard the story of the hosts 17 of the Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the unbelievers still belie, 19 And Allah encompasses them on every side. 20 But this is an honored Qur'an 21 (Inscribed) in Al-Lauh Al-Mahfuz (The Preserved Tablet)! 22