The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 and by the moon as it follows it; 2 And by oath of the day when it reveals it 3 And the night when it enshroudeth him, 4 And the heaven and Him Who built it, 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 And he fails that corrupts it! 10 Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin). 11 when the most wicked man among them rose up. 12 Then the messenger of God said to them, "This is God's she-camel. 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 (Allah) feared not the consequences thereof. 15