The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 by the moon, which follows it, 2 And the day when it shows it, 3 by the night when it covers the earth with darkness, 4 And the heaven and Him Who made it, 5 And the earth and Him Who extended it, 6 by the soul and how He formed it, 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 and he who suppresses it will be ruined. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 When the most wicked among them stood up in defiance. 12 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) drink. 13 Then they belied him and they hamstrung her; wherefore their Lord overwhelmed them for their crime, and made it equal. 14 He does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15