The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the heaven, holding mansions of the stars, 1 By the promised Day (of Judgment); 2 By one that witnesses, and the subject of the witness;- 3 destroyed were the people of the trench, 4 of fire fiercely burning [for all who have attained to faith]! 5 When they were sitting at its edge. 6 Witnessing what they had done to the believers! 7 They took revenge on them only because they believed in the All-mighty, the Al-laudable, 8 Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things. 9 Those who persecuted the believing men and women and never repented, there is for them the punishment of Gehenna (Hell), and for them the punishment of the 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 The vengeance of God is terribly severe. 12 Surely He it is Who originates and reproduces, 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 The Lord of the Glorious Throne, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Has the story reached thee, of the forces- 17 of Pharaoh and of Thamood? 18 But they who disbelieve are in [persistent] denial, 19 Whereas Allah is, from behind them, Encompassing. 20 Aye! it is a Recitation glorious, 21 in a guarded tablet. 22