The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
By the sun and its noon-time brightness, 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 And by the day as it shows up (the sun's) brightness; 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it 7 And given the faculty of knowing what is disruptive and what is intrinsic to it. 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 The Thamud denied (the truth) in their perverseness 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 Then the messenger of God said to them, "This is God's she-camel. Let her drink." 13 But they called him a liar and hamstrung her. So God obliterated them for their crime, and (destroyed) all of them alike. 14 And for Him is no fear of its consequences. 15