The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour, 1 And the moon when it follows the sun, 2 and by the day when it displays him 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 And by the heaven and Him Who built it; 5 and by the earth and by Him Who stretched it out; 6 and by the soul and that (Power) which designed it 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 Samood gave the lie (to the truth) in their inordinacy, 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they rejected his statement as a lie and hamstrung the she-camel. For that crime their Lord rumbled down upon them, utterly razing them to the ground. 14 And He (Allah) feared not the consequences thereof. 15