The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
By the heaven adorned with big stars. 1 and [then bethink thyself of] the promised Day, 2 by the witness and the witnessed, 3 Woe to the makers of the pit (of fire), 4 the fire with its fuel, 5 Lo! [With glee do] they contemplate that [fire,] 6 And they witnessed what they were doing against the believers (i.e. burning them). 7 Against these they had no grudge except that they believed in Allah, the Most Mighty, the Most Praiseworthy, 8 to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. God is witness over all things. 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 He is the All-forgiving, the Most Loving One, 14 in sublime almightiness enthroned, 15 a sovereign doer of whatever He wills. 16 Hast thou received the story of the hosts, 17 Of the Fir'awn and the Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 But God surrounds them from all sides. 20 Aye! it is a Recitation glorious, 21 (Preserved) on the guarded tablet. 22