AN-NAJM (النجم). “The Star.” The title of the LIIIrd Sūrah of the Qurʾān, which begins with the words, “By the star when it falls.”
NAJRĀN (نجران). A district between Yaman and Najd, inhabited by a Christian tribe, whose endurance and constancy in their Christian belief are the subject of the following verses in the Qurʾān. [Sūrah lxxxv. 4–11]. (The verses are said to have been revealed at an early date, and indicate Muḥammad’s kind feeling towards the Christians):—
“Cursed be the diggers of the pit,
“Of the fuel-fed fire,
“When they sat around it
“Witnesses of what they inflicted on the believers!
“Nor did they torment them but for their faith in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy:
“His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth; and God is the witness of everything.
“Verily, those who vexed the believers, men and women, and repented not, doth the torment of Hell, and the torment of the burning, await.
“But for those who shall have believed and done the things that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow. This is the immense bliss!”