The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 And the moon when it follows the sun, 2 and by the day when it displays him 3 And by the night as it conceals it (the sun); 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 And the earth and Him Who extended it, 6 and by the soul and that (Power) which designed it 7 and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing! 8 He who nourishes it will surely be successful, 9 And he will indeed fail who corrupts it. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 When among them the great wretch arose, 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; 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 God is not afraid of the result of what He had decreed. 15