The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness, 1 And the moon as she follows in his wake, 2 and by the day when it displays him 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 and the earth and all its expanse! 6 by the soul and Who shaped it 7 and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God! 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 Thamud denied [their prophet] by reason of their transgression, 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (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 He feared not the consequence thereof 15