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AL-BURUJ (85)

The Constellations

1. By the heaven of the constellations,(1)
2. by the Promised Day,(2)
3. by the witness and the witnessed.(3)
4. Perish the Men of the Pit (4)
5. of the Fire, fed with fuel;(5)
6. when they sat by it,(6)
7. and they were witnesses of what they were doing with the Believers.(7)
8. And they took revenge on them only because they believed in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy,(8)
9. to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and God is witness ever everything.(9)
10. Surely those who persecute the Believing men and women, then do not repent, for them shall be the punishment of Hell, and for them shall be the punishment of the burning.(10)
11. Surely those who believe and do righteous deeds, for them shall be gardens underneath which rivers flow; that is the great triumph.(11)
12. Surely thy Lord's assault is terrible.(12)
13. He it is who originates and repeats,(13)
14. and He is the Forgiving, the Loving,(14)
15. Lord of the Throne, the Glorious,(15)
16. Performer of what He desires.(16)
17. Has there come to thee the story of the hosts,(17)
18. of Pharaoh and Thamood?(18)
19. No, but the unbelievers persist in crying lies,(19)
20. and God is behind them encompassing.(20)
21. No, it is a Glorious Reading (Qur'an),(21)
22. in a Guarded Tablet.(22)