The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the heaven with its impregnable castles; 1 by the promised day, 2 by the witness and the witnessed, 3 destroyed were the people of the trench, 4 by a burning fire 5 When they sat by it, 6 and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers. 7 And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Praised, 8 to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. God is witness over all things. 9 Lo! they who persecute believing men and believing women and repent not, theirs verily will be the doom of hell, and theirs the doom of burning. 10 Those who believe, and do righteous deeds, for them await gardens underneath which rivers flow; that is the great triumph. 11 Surely the might of your Lord is great. 12 Indeed it is He Who initiates and redoes. 13 He is the All-forgiving, the Most Loving One, 14 – the Lord of the Glorious Throne, 15 The Doer of whatever He wants. 16 Have you not heard the story of the hosts 17 Of Firon and Samood? 18 Nay, but those who disbelieve live in denial 19 and God is behind them, encompassing. 20 Nay! This is a Glorious Quran, 21 that exists in a well-guarded tablet. 22