Surah Al-Buruj (البروج) is a Meccan surah of the Quran with 22 verses. Read, listen and memorize this surah with our interactive tools.
Updated on 07 March 2026 at 4:16 PM
📖 1 min readSimilarly, He took His enemies and saved His allies, thus the conclusion reverted to the beginning, and the introduction was connected to the end. This necessitates the purification of the Speaker (God) from leaving anything, let alone lives, without protection, and from everything that is unbecoming. It also necessitates affirming perfection and completeness for Him in every way - and God knows what is correct, to Him is the return and the refuge, and to Him is the escape and the recourse.
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وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْبُرُوجِ ﴿١﴾
By the sky containing great stars
وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْمَوْعُودِ ﴿٢﴾
And [by] the promised Day
وَشَاهِدٍۢ وَمَشْهُودٍۢ ﴿٣﴾
And [by] the witness and what is witnessed,
قُتِلَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْأُخْدُودِ ﴿٤﴾
Cursed were the companions of the trench
ٱلنَّارِ ذَاتِ ٱلْوَقُودِ ﴿٥﴾
[Containing] the fire full of fuel,
إِذْ هُمْ عَلَيْهَا قُعُودٌۭ ﴿٦﴾
When they were sitting near it
وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌۭ ﴿٧﴾
And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses.
وَمَا نَقَمُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلْحَمِيدِ ﴿٨﴾
And they resented them not except because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy,
ٱلَّذِى لَهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ شَهِيدٌ ﴿٩﴾
To whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. And Allah, over all things, is Witness.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا۟ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا۟ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ ٱلْحَرِيقِ ﴿١٠﴾
Indeed, those who have tortured the believing men and believing women and then have not repented will have the punishment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the Burning Fire.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَهُمْ جَنَّـٰتٌۭ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْكَبِيرُ ﴿١١﴾
Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds will have gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great attainment.
إِنَّ بَطْشَ رَبِّكَ لَشَدِيدٌ ﴿١٢﴾
Indeed, the vengeance of your Lord is severe.
إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ يُبْدِئُ وَيُعِيدُ ﴿١٣﴾
Indeed, it is He who originates [creation] and repeats.
وَهُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلْوَدُودُ ﴿١٤﴾
And He is the Forgiving, the Affectionate,
ذُو ٱلْعَرْشِ ٱلْمَجِيدُ ﴿١٥﴾
Honorable Owner of the Throne,
فَعَّالٌۭ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ ﴿١٦﴾
Effecter of what He intends.
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْجُنُودِ ﴿١٧﴾
Has there reached you the story of the soldiers -
فِرْعَوْنَ وَثَمُودَ ﴿١٨﴾
[Those of] Pharaoh and Thamud?
بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ فِى تَكْذِيبٍۢ ﴿١٩﴾
But they who disbelieve are in [persistent] denial,
وَٱللَّهُ مِن وَرَآئِهِم مُّحِيطٌۢ ﴿٢٠﴾
While Allah encompasses them from behind.
بَلْ هُوَ قُرْءَانٌۭ مَّجِيدٌۭ ﴿٢١﴾
But this is an honored Qur'an
فِى لَوْحٍۢ مَّحْفُوظٍۭ ﴿٢٢﴾
[Inscribed] in a Preserved Slate.