The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour, 1 By the Moon as she follows him; 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 The night when it covers him over, 4 by the sky and how He built it 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it; 8 He will indeed be successful who purifies it, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 11 when the most wicked of them broke forth, 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they called him a liar and slaughtered her, therefore their Lord crushed them for their sin and levelled them (with the ground). 14 And for Him is no fear of its consequences. 15