The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By the sun and its noon-time brightness, 1 by the moon when it follows the sun, 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 and the night as it veils it darkly! 4 By the heaven and Him Who builded it, 5 and by the earth and That which extended it! 6 The soul and how it was integrated 7 and imbued it with (the consciousness of) its evil and its piety: 8 He has succeeded who purifies it, 9 and he who corrupts it is sure to fail. 10 The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, 11 When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel). 12 But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having 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 He dreadeth not the sequel (of events). 15