The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the heaven, holding mansions of the stars, 1 And by the Day promised, 2 By one that witnesses, and the subject of the witness;- 3 the people of the pit were destroyed 4 by a burning fire 5 When they were sitting at its edge. 6 And were themselves the witnesses of what they did to the believers. 7 They took revenge on them only because they believed in the All-mighty, the Al-laudable, 8 to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. God is witness over all things. 9 Those who persecute the believing men and believing women, and then do not repent, will surely suffer the punishment of Hell, and the torment of burning. 10 Verily, those who believe and do righteous good deeds, for them will be Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise). That is the great success. 11 Indeed, the vengeance of your Lord is severe. 12 Verily He! He it is who beginneth and repeateth it. 13 He is the All-forgiving, the Most Loving One, 14 Lord of the Throne of Glory, 15 He does what He intends (or wills). 16 Has the story reached thee, of the forces- 17 Of Pharaoh and Thamud come to you? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 And Allah is after them, has them surrounded. 20 It is indeed a glorious Quran, 21 written on a preserved Tablet. 22