The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the sun and its brightness 1 And the moon when it follows the sun, 2 and by the day when it displays him 3 The night when it covers him over, 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 and by the earth and by Him Who stretched it out; 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 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 Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety). 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, 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 feared not the consequence thereof 15