The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the heaven, holding the big stars. 1 And by the Promised Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection); 2 And [by] the witness and what is witnessed, 3 destroyed were the people of the trench, 4 [Containing] the fire full of fuel, 5 When they sat by it, 6 And they themselves are witnesses to what they were doing to the Muslims! 7 And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy, 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 Lo! the punishment of thy Lord is stern. 12 It is He who originates and repeats. 13 and He is the All-forgiving, the All-loving, 14 – the Lord of the Glorious Throne, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Have you not heard the story of the hosts 17 of Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 although Allah surrounds them. 20 Nay, this is a Glorious Qur'an, 21 upon an imperishable tablet [inscribed]. 22