The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 And the moon when she followeth him, 2 By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory; 3 and the night as it veils it darkly! 4 By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure; 5 And [by] the earth and He who spread it 6 And a soul and Him Who perfected it 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 And indeed failed is the one who covered it in sin. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 Then the messenger of God said to them, "This is God's she-camel. Let her drink." 13 But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike: 14 And for Him is no fear of its consequences. 15