The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sun and its noon-time brightness, 1 And the moon as she follows in his wake, 2 by the day when it brightens the earth, 3 And by the night as it conceals it (the sun); 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 by the earth and Who spread it, 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin). 11 When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel). 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they belied him, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin and leveled it (their village). 14 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15