The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By oath of the sun and its light 1 And by the moon as it follows it (the sun); 2 By the day when it glorifieth it. 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 And [by] the earth and He who spread it 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 Surely blissful is he who hath cleansed it, 9 And miserable is he who hath buried it. 10 The Thamud denied (the truth) in their perverseness 11 when the most wicked man among them rose up. 12 And the messenger of Allah [Salih] said to them, "[Do not harm] the she-camel of Allah or [prevent her from] her drink." 13 But they rejected his statement as a lie and hamstrung the she-camel. For that crime their Lord rumbled down upon them, utterly razing them to the ground. 14 He did not fear the consequences. 15