85:1  By the sky full of constellations,

85:2  by the promised Day,

85:3  by a witness and what is witnessed.

85:4  Cursed are the diggers of the trench,

85:5  who lit the well-fuelled fire;

85:6  when they sat around it,

85:7  watching what they were doing to the believers.

85:8  They punished them because they believed in Allah, the Almighty, the Praiseworthy,

85:9  the One Who controls all things in the Heavens and the Earth, and Allah is the witness of everything.

85:10  The persecutors of the believing men and women didn’t repent, so they will be punished in Hell, in the Burning Flames

85:11  The believers who were righteous will have gardens of Paradise, beneath which rivers flow. That will be the great achievement.

85:12  Your Lord’s punishment will be severely harsh.

85:13  He started the creation and will reproduce it once more,

85:14  He is the Forgiving, the most Loving,

85:15  Possessor of the Majestic Throne,

85:16  the Most Able to carry out what He pleases.

85:17  Has the story of the armies reached you?

85:18  About the Pharaoh and Thamud?

85:19  Yet the disbelievers are still in denial,

85:20  while Allah surrounds them from all sides.

85:21  But this is a Majestic reading,

85:22  in the Protected Tablet