The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By oath of the sun and its light 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 by the day when it brightens the earth, 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 and by the earth and That which extended it! 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 when the most corrupt of them incited them (to commit evil). 12 The Messenger of God told them, "This is a she-camel, belonging to God. Do not deprive her of her share of water". 13 But they gave him the lie, and hamstrung the she-camel. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime and razed their city to the ground. 14 He does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15