The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness, 1 by the moon when it follows the sun, 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 And the heaven and Him Who made it, 5 by the earth and Who spread it, 6 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, 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 And He fears not its consequence. 15