The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
By the sun and its morning brightness, 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 Consider the day as it reveals the world, 3 By the Night as it conceals it; 4 And the heaven and Him Who made it, 5 And by the earth and Him Who spread it, 6 by the soul and how He formed it, 7 Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it; 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 When the most unfortunate of them broke forth with 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they denied him, and they hamstrung her, so Allah doomed them for their sin and rased (their dwellings). 14 And He does not fear the consequence thereof. 15