The Sun (Al-Shams)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 by the moon, which follows it, 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 And the night when it draws a veil over it, 4 The heavens and its architecture, 5 and by the earth and That which extended it! 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 So the Noble Messenger of Allah said to them, “Stay away from the she camel of Allah, and from its turn to drink.” 13 Then they belied him and they hamstrung her; wherefore their Lord overwhelmed them for their crime, and made it equal. 14 And He does not fear its coming behind (to take vengeance). 15