The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its midmorning, 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 By the night when it envelopeth it, 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 And the earth and Him Who spread it, 6 and by the soul and that (Power) which designed it 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 and failed is he who buried it! 10 Thamood cried lies in their insolence 11 Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety). 12 And the messenger of Allah [Salih] said to them, "[Do not harm] the she-camel of Allah or [prevent her from] her drink." 13 But they cried him lies, and hamstrung her, so their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled them: 14 God is not afraid of the result of what He had decreed. 15