The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 And the moon as she follows in his wake, 2 and by the day as it reveals its glory 3 And the night when it draws a veil over it, 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 He is indeed successful who causeth it to grow, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings. 14 And He does not fear the consequence thereof. 15