The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
I swear by the sun and its brilliance, 1 and the moon as it reflects the sun! 2 And the day when it revealeth him, 3 and by the night when it enshrouds him! 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: 6 And a soul and Him Who perfected it 7 And inspired it with the wickedness thereof and the piety thereof, 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed,] 12 But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!" 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 He has no fear of its sequel. 15