The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 By the moon when it followeth it, 2 By the day when it glorifieth it. 3 By the night when it envelopeth it, 4 And [by] the sky and He who constructed it 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 by the soul and Who shaped it 7 and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing! 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 And he has failed who instills it [with corruption]. 10 (The tribe of) Thamud denied (the truth) in their rebellious pride, 11 when the most wicked man among them rose up. 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they gave him the lie, and hamstrung the she-camel. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime and razed their city to the ground. 14 He did not fear the consequences. 15