The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
By the sun and his brightness, 1 and by the moon when she follows him, 2 by the day when it brightens the earth, 3 The night when it covers him over, 4 Consider the sky and its wondrous make, 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 and he who corrupts it is sure to fail. 10 The Thamud tribe rejected the truth because of their arrogance, 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 So the Noble Messenger of Allah said to them, “Stay away from the she camel of Allah, and from its turn to drink.” 13 But they gave him the lie, and hamstrung the she-camel. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime and razed their city to the ground. 14 And for Him is no fear of its consequences. 15