The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sky with its constellations, 1 by the Promised Day, 2 by the witness and the witnessed, 3 The companions of the pit were killed 4 the makers of the fuel-stoked fire! 5 When they were sitting near it 6 and were witnessing what they did to the believers. 7 And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Praised, 8 and the One to whom belongs the heavens and the earth. God is the Witness of all things. 9 Surely for those who persecute believers, men and women, and do not repent afterwards, is the punishment of Hell, and the punishment of 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 grip of your Lord is indeed severe, 12 Lo! He it is Who produceth, then reproduceth, 13 And He is the Forgiving, and the Loving. 14 Lord of the Throne, the Glorious, 15 Doer (without let) of all that He intends. 16 Did the story of the armies reach you? 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 In fact the disbelievers are in denial. 19 Allah encompasses them all from behind. 20 It is indeed a glorious Quran, 21 that exists in a well-guarded tablet. 22