The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 and by the night when it enshrouds him! 4 and by the sky and by Him Who made it; 5 by the earth and Who spread it, 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing! 8 Truly he succeeds that purifies it, 9 and failed is he who buried it! 10 (The tribe of) Thamud denied (the truth) in their rebellious pride, 11 When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel). 12 So the Noble Messenger of Allah said to them, “Stay away from the she camel of Allah, and from its turn to 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 does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15