The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
And by the sun and its brightness; 1 and by the moon when she follows him, 2 And the day when it revealeth him, 3 and by the night when it enshrouds him! 4 and by the sky and by Him Who made it; 5 and the earth and all its expanse! 6 And by Nafs (Adam or a person or a soul, etc.), and Him Who perfected him in proportion; 7 And inspired in it the knowledge of its sins and its piety. 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 What time the greatest wretch of them rose up. 12 Then the apostle of Allah said unto them: beware of the she-camel of Allah and 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 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15