The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 by the moon, which follows it, 2 And by oath of the day when it reveals it 3 by the night when it covers the earth with darkness, 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 And by the earth and Him Who spread it, 6 by the soul and Who shaped it 7 and inspired it with knowledge of evil and piety, 8 Truly he succeeds that purifies it, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let her drink!' 13 Then they belied him and they hamstrung her; wherefore their Lord overwhelmed them for their crime, and made it equal. 14 He did not fear the consequences. 15