The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its morning brightness, 1 And [by] the moon when it follows it 2 The day when it reveals his radiance, 3 By the night when it envelopeth it, 4 And the heaven and Him Who made it, 5 and by the earth and how He spread it, 6 And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed,] 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they called him a liar and slaughtered her, therefore their Lord crushed them for their sin and levelled them (with the ground). 14 He did not fear the consequences. 15