The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and his morning brightness 1 And the moon when she followeth him, 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 And the soul and Him Who made it perfect, 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 and he who corrupts it is sure to fail. 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 messenger of God said to them, "This is God's she-camel. 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 He dreadeth not the sequel (of events). 15