The Galaxies (Al-Burooj)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the heaven adorned with big stars. 1 And the promised day, 2 and by the witness and what is witnessed: 3 slain were the Men of the Pit, 4 the fire with its fuel, 5 When they sat by it 6 And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. 7 Against these they had no grudge except that they believed in Allah, the Most Mighty, the Most Praiseworthy, 8 Whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is a Witness of 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 Surely for those who believe and do the right are gardens with rivers running by. That is the greatest success. 11 Stern indeed is your Lord's punishment. 12 It is verily He who initiates and repeats. 13 and He is the Ever Forgiving, the Most Loving 14 – the Lord of the Glorious Throne, 15 the Executor of what He wills. 16 Has there reached you the story of the soldiers - 17 Of the Fir'awn and the Thamud? 18 Yet those who deny the truth persist in denial. 19 God encompasses them from all sides. 20 Nay; but this is a glorious Qur'an, 21 In a guarded tablet. 22