The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its noon-time brightness, 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 And the day when it shows it, 3 And the night when it draws a veil over it, 4 by the heavens and that (Power) which established them, 5 by the earth and Who spread it, 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 Samood gave the lie (to the truth) in their inordinacy, 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) drink. 13 Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! 14 And He fears not its consequence. 15