The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sun and its midmorning, 1 And [by] the moon when it follows it 2 And the day when it revealeth him, 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 By the heaven and That which built it 5 And the earth and Him Who extended it, 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 He will indeed be successful who purifies it, 9 And indeed failed is the one who covered it in sin. 10 Samood gave the lie (to the truth) in their inordinacy, 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let her drink!' 13 But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike: 14 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15