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English - Chapter 85 - Al-Buruj

Translation by John Medows Rodwell — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:1

BY the star-bespangled Heaven

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:2

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:3

By the witness and the witnessed

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:4

Cursed the masters of the trench

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:5

Of the fuel-fed fire

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:6

When they sat around it

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:7

Witnesses of what they inflicted on the believers

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:8

Nor did they torment them but for their faith in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:9

His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth; and God is the witness of everything

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:10

Verily, those who vexed the believers, men and women, and repented not, doth the torment of Hell, and the torment of the burning, await

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:11

But for those who shall have believed and done the things that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow. This the immense bliss

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:12

Verily, right terrible will be thy Lord's vengeance

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:13

He it is who produceth all things, and causeth them to return

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:14

And is He the Indulgent, the Loving

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:15

Possessor of the Glorious throne

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:16

Worker of that he willeth

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:17

Hath not the story reached thee of the hosts

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:18

Of Pharaoh and Themoud

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:19

Nay! the infields are all for denial

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:20

But God surroundeth them from behind

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:21

Yet it is a glorious Koran

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Buruj 85:22

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