The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its brightness 1 And the moon when she followeth him, 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 And [by] the night when it covers it 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 and by the earth and how He spread it, 6 by the soul and how He formed it, 7 And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- 8 He who purifies it will indeed be successful, 9 and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. 10 Samood gave the lie (to the truth) in their inordinacy, 11 when the most wretched of them uprose, 12 the Messenger of Allah said to them: '(This is) the shecamel of Allah, let her drink' 13 But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike: 14 He does not fear the result (of their destruction). 15