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AL -BUROOJ
AL -BUROOJ[Constellations]
By the heaven with its impregnable castles;*[*implies the glorious stars and planets of the sky]
by the Promised Day,*[* That is, the Day of Resurrection.]
and by the witness and what is witnessed:
the people of the pit were destroyed
with fire abounding in fuel,
while they sat around it,
and were witnessing what they did to the believers.
Against these they had no grudge except that they believed in Allah, the Most Mighty, the Most Praiseworthy,
to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. Allah witnesses everything...
Surely those who tormented the believing men and the believing women and then did not repent, theirs shall be the chastisement of Hell, and theirs shall be the chastisement of burning.*[* Punishment of burning has been mentioned separately from the torment of Hell because they had burnt the oppressed people to death by casting them into the pits of fire. Probably this will be a different and severer kind of fire from the fire of Hell in which those people will be burnt.]
As for those who believed and acted righteously, theirs shall be Gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great triumph.
Stern indeed is your Lord`s punishment.
He it is Who creates for the first time and He it is Who will create again,
and He is the Ever Forgiving, the Most Loving
– the Lord of the Glorious Throne,
the Executor of what He wills.*[*. He is the All-Forgiving: If a person repents and reforms himself, he can hope to be received by Allah in His mercy. All-Loving: He has no enmity with His creatures that He would subject them to torment without any reason, but He loves the creatures He has created and punishes them only when they do not give up the attitude of rebellion against Him. Owner of the Throne, means that He alone is the Ruler of the kingdom of the universe:no one who is a rebel can escape His grip and punishment. The mention of His being Exalted is meant to warn man for his meanness when he adopts an attitude of arrogance against such a Being. Last of all, "He is Doer of whatever He intends:no one in the entire universe has the power to obstruct and resist what Allah wills to do.]
Has the story of the armies reached you,
the armies of Pharaoh and Thamud?*[*. The address is directed to the people who in their false pride of having powerful hosts, are breaking the law of God on His earth. They are being warned, as if to say:Do you know what evil fate was met before by those who broke the bounds set by Allah on the strength of the power of their hosts.]
The unbelievers are indeed engaged in denying it, calling it a lie,
although Allah surrounds them.
Nay; but this is a glorious Qur`an,
inscribed on a well-guarded Tablet*[*. That is, the writ of the Quran is unchangeable and imperishable. It is inscribed in the guarded tablet of God, which cannot he corrupted in any way. Whatever is written in it has to be fulfilled:even the whole world together cannot avert its fulfillment.]
BISMILLAH
By the heaven with its impregnable castles;*[*implies the glorious stars and planets of the sky]
by the Promised Day,*[* That is, the Day of Resurrection.]
and by the witness and what is witnessed:
the people of the pit were destroyed
with fire abounding in fuel,
while they sat around it,
and were witnessing what they did to the believers.
Against these they had no grudge except that they believed in Allah, the Most Mighty, the Most Praiseworthy,
to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. Allah witnesses everything...
Surely those who tormented the believing men and the believing women and then did not repent, theirs shall be the chastisement of Hell, and theirs shall be the chastisement of burning.*[* Punishment of burning has been mentioned separately from the torment of Hell because they had burnt the oppressed people to death by casting them into the pits of fire. Probably this will be a different and severer kind of fire from the fire of Hell in which those people will be burnt.]
As for those who believed and acted righteously, theirs shall be Gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great triumph.
Stern indeed is your Lord`s punishment.
He it is Who creates for the first time and He it is Who will create again,
and He is the Ever Forgiving, the Most Loving
– the Lord of the Glorious Throne,
the Executor of what He wills.*[*. He is the All-Forgiving: If a person repents and reforms himself, he can hope to be received by Allah in His mercy. All-Loving: He has no enmity with His creatures that He would subject them to torment without any reason, but He loves the creatures He has created and punishes them only when they do not give up the attitude of rebellion against Him. Owner of the Throne, means that He alone is the Ruler of the kingdom of the universe:no one who is a rebel can escape His grip and punishment. The mention of His being Exalted is meant to warn man for his meanness when he adopts an attitude of arrogance against such a Being. Last of all, "He is Doer of whatever He intends:no one in the entire universe has the power to obstruct and resist what Allah wills to do.]
Has the story of the armies reached you,
the armies of Pharaoh and Thamud?*[*. The address is directed to the people who in their false pride of having powerful hosts, are breaking the law of God on His earth. They are being warned, as if to say:Do you know what evil fate was met before by those who broke the bounds set by Allah on the strength of the power of their hosts.]
The unbelievers are indeed engaged in denying it, calling it a lie,
although Allah surrounds them.
Nay; but this is a glorious Qur`an,
inscribed on a well-guarded Tablet*[*. That is, the writ of the Quran is unchangeable and imperishable. It is inscribed in the guarded tablet of God, which cannot he corrupted in any way. Whatever is written in it has to be fulfilled:even the whole world together cannot avert its fulfillment.]
BISMILLAH
