The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 and by the moon as it follows it, 2 By the day when it glorifieth it. 3 and by the night when it draws a veil over it, 4 Consider the sky and its wondrous make, 5 and by the earth and by Him Who stretched it out; 6 By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; 7 and imbued it with (the consciousness of) its evil and its piety: 8 Truly he succeeds that purifies it, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 Thamud denied [their prophet] by reason of their transgression, 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let her drink!' 13 But they called him a liar and hamstrung her. So God obliterated them for their crime, and (destroyed) all of them alike. 14 and He fears not the issue thereof. 15