The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour, 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 And by the day as it shows up (the sun's) brightness; 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 And the heaven and Him Who made it, 5 and by the earth and how He spread it, 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 Surely blissful is he who hath cleansed it, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 The Thamud tribe rejected the truth because of their arrogance, 11 when the most corrupt of them incited them (to commit evil). 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, let her drink' 13 But they rejected his statement as a lie and hamstrung the she-camel. For that crime their Lord rumbled down upon them, utterly razing them to the ground. 14 And He (Allah) feared not the consequences thereof. 15