The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 And the moon as she follows in his wake, 2 and by the day as it reveals its glory 3 by the night when it covers the earth with darkness, 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 and by the earth and how He spread it, 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 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 When the basest of them broke forth 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 But they belied him, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin and leveled it (their village). 14 And for Him is no fear of its consequences. 15