The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its brightness 1 and by the moon when she follows him, 2 and by the day when it displays him 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 And by the heaven and Him Who built it; 5 and by the earth and by Him Who stretched it out; 6 by the soul and how He formed 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 Thamud denied [their prophet] by reason of their transgression, 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 Then the messenger of God said to them, "This is God's she-camel. Let her drink." 13 In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings. 14 He dreadeth not the sequel (of events). 15