The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 By the day when it glorifieth it. 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 Consider the sky and its wondrous make, 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; 7 and inspired it with knowledge of evil and piety, 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin). 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!" 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 He does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15