The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
By the sun and its midmorning, 1 And [by] the moon when it follows it 2 By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory; 3 And the night when it enshroudeth him, 4 By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure; 5 By the earth and Him Who spread it forth, 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 And given the faculty of knowing what is disruptive and what is intrinsic to it. 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 The Thamud denied (the truth) in their perverseness 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, let her drink' 13 Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! 14 He does not fear the consequence. 15