The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; 1 And the moon when it follows the sun, 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 The night when it covers him over, 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 and by the soul and that (Power) which designed it 7 And inspired in it the knowledge of its sins and its piety. 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 and he who suppresses it will be ruined. 10 Thamood cried lies in their insolence 11 when the most wicked of them broke forth, 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, let her 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 God is not afraid of the result of what He had decreed. 15