The Sun (Al-Shams)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the sun and its brightness 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 By the day when it glorifieth 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 Surely blissful is he who hath cleansed it, 9 And he who confines it will surely come to grief. 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety). 12 And the apostle of God had to tell them: "This is God's she-camel, let her drink." 13 Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! 14 And He does not fear its coming behind (to take vengeance). 15