The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its heat and brightness, 1 and by the moon when she follows him, 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 and by the night as it envelopes the sun; 4 by the sky and how He built it 5 The earth and its spreading out, 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 and inspired it with its sin and its piety, 8 prosperous is he who purified it, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 (The tribe of) Thamud denied (the truth) in their rebellious pride, 11 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 But the Messenger of Allah [Salih (Saleh)] said to them: "Be cautious! Fear the evil end. That is the she-camel of Allah! (Do not harm it) and bar it not from having its drink!" 13 In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings. 14 He did not fear the consequences. 15