The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
I swear by the sun and its brilliance, 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 by the heavens and that (Power) which established them, 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 by the soul and how He formed it, 7 And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness, 8 He is indeed successful who causeth it to grow, 9 and he who corrupts it is sure to fail. 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 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 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 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15