The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
By the sun and his brightness, 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 and by the day as it reveals its glory 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 by the earth and that (Power) which spread it out 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 and imbued it with (the consciousness of) its evil and its piety: 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin). 11 when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed,] 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, 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 He does not fear the consequence thereof. 15