The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour, 1 And [by] the moon when it follows it 2 Consider the day as it reveals the world, 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 And [by] the earth and He who spread it 6 by the soul and how He formed it, 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 The Thamud denied (the truth) in their perverseness 11 when their arch-criminal rose up in rage. 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let her drink!' 13 Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! 14 And He fears not its consequence. 15