The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
By the sky containing great stars 1 And by the Day promised, 2 And [by] the witness and what is witnessed, 3 the people of the pit were destroyed 4 [Containing] the fire full of fuel, 5 As they sat around it 6 fully conscious of what they are doing to the believers, 7 They had no other reason for hating them except that they believed in God the mighty, worthy of praise, 8 Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is a Witness of 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 Surely (as for) those who believe and do good, they shall have gardens beneath which rivers flow, that is the great achievement. 11 Stern indeed is your Lord's punishment. 12 Surely it is He who originates, and brings again, 13 And He is the Forgiving, and the Loving. 14 Honorable Owner of the Throne, 15 the Executor of what He wills. 16 HAS IT ever come within thy ken, the story of the [sinful] hosts 17 the armies of Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 and God is behind them, encompassing. 20 Nay, but it is a glorious Koran, 21 (Preserved) on the guarded tablet. 22