The Sun (Al-Shams)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
I swear by the sun and its brilliance, 1 And [by] the moon when it follows it 2 And by the day as it shows up (the sun's) brightness; 3 By the night when it envelopeth it, 4 by the heavens and that (Power) which established them, 5 and by the earth and by Him Who stretched it out; 6 By the soul and Him Who propertioned it, 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 He who nourishes it will surely be successful, 9 and failed is he who buried it! 10 TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, 11 when the most wicked of them broke forth, 12 Then the apostle of Allah said unto them: beware of the she-camel of Allah and 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 And He does not fear its coming behind (to take vengeance). 15