The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness, 1 And the moon when she followeth him, 2 The day when it reveals his radiance, 3 and by the night as it envelopes the sun; 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 by the earth and that (Power) which spread it out 6 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 and failed has he who seduces it. 10 Thamood belied in their pride 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!" 13 Then they belied him and they hamstrung her; wherefore their Lord overwhelmed them for their crime, and made it equal. 14 And He (Allah) feared not the consequences thereof. 15