The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 by the moon when it follows the sun, 2 The day when it reveals his radiance, 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 The heavens and its architecture, 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 and by the soul and that (Power) which designed it 7 and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing! 8 Surely blissful is he who hath cleansed it, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) drink. 13 But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike: 14 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15