Al-Buruj

By the sky with its great constellations, the Promised Day, and the witness and what is witnessed: cursed were the makers of the ditch, the fire full of fuel, when they sat by it, watching what they did to the believers, resenting them only because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy, to whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and who witnesses all things. Those who persecute believing men and women and never repent will have the punishment of Hell and of burning; those who believe and do good will have gardens with rivers flowing beneath: that is the great success. Your Lord’s grip is severe. He begins creation and repeats it; He is the Forgiving, the Loving, Lord of the Glorious Throne, doing whatever He wills. Has the story of the armies of Pharaoh and Thamud reached you? Yet the disbelievers keep denying, while Allah surrounds them. No, it is a glorious Quran, in a Preserved Tablet.