The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the sun and its brightness 1 And by the moon as it follows it (the sun); 2 And the day when it revealeth him, 3 by the night, when it envelops it! 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 By the earth and Him Who spread it forth, 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 and imbued it with (the consciousness of) its evil and its piety: 8 Truly he succeeds that purifies it, 9 and he who suppresses it will be ruined. 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 11 when the most corrupt of them incited them (to commit evil). 12 then the Messenger of God said to them, 'The She-camel of God; let 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 And He feared not the consequence thereof 15