The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the sun and his morning brightness 1 and by the moon when she follows him, 2 by the day when it brightens the earth, 3 and by the night when it draws a veil over it, 4 and by the sky and by Him Who made it; 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 by the soul and Who shaped it 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 And he will indeed fail who corrupts it. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 Then the apostle of Allah said unto them: beware of the she-camel of Allah and 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 And He feared not the consequence thereof 15