The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the sun and its noon-time brightness, 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 by the day when it brightens the earth, 3 by the night when it covers the earth with darkness, 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 And by the earth and Him Who spread it, 6 And a soul and Him Who perfected it 7 and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing! 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 and he who suppresses it will be ruined. 10 Thamood belied in their pride 11 When the basest of them broke forth 12 although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!" 13 Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! 14 and He fears not the issue thereof. 15