The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By oath of the heaven which contains the constellations. 1 And by oath of the Promised Day. 2 And the witness and the witnessed, 3 Cursed be the makers of the pit, 4 The people of the fuelled blazing fire. 5 Lo! [With glee do] they contemplate that [fire,] 6 And to that which they did to the believers were witnesses. 7 whom they hated for no other reason than that they believed in God, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy, 8 Who, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness over everything. 9 Verily, as for those who persecute believing men and believing women, and thereafter do not repent, hell's suffering awaits them: yea, suffering through fire awaits them! 10 (But) for those who believe and do good works, for them there are Gardens underneath which rivers flow that is the Great Victory! 11 VERILY, thy Sustainer's grip is exceedingly strong! 12 He it is Who creates for the first time and He it is Who will create again, 13 He is the forgiving and the loving, 14 Lord of the Throne, the Glorious, 15 The great doer of what He will. 16 Have you not heard about the stories of the armies 17 of the Pharaoh and Thamud? 18 Yet the infidels persist in denial. 19 And Allah is after them, has them surrounded. 20 What is revealed to you is certainly a glorious Quran 21 written on a preserved Tablet. 22