The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its morning brightness, 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory; 3 and by the night when it enshrouds him! 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. 10 Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin). 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 Then the apostle of Allah said unto them: beware of the she-camel of Allah and her drink. 13 In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings. 14 And He fears not its consequence. 15