The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By oath of the sun and its light 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 And [by] the day when it displays it 3 And by the night as it conceals it (the sun); 4 By the heaven and Who built it, 5 and the earth and all its expanse! 6 And the soul and Him Who made it perfect, 7 And inspired in it the knowledge of its sins and its piety. 8 Prosperous is he who purifies it, 9 And he will indeed fail who corrupts 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 Allah's Messenger warned them: “Hands off the she-camel and her drink!” 13 Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin, and made them equal in destruction (i.e. all grades of people, rich and poor, strong and weak, etc.)! 14 God is not afraid of the result of what He had decreed. 15