The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the sun and its midmorning, 1 by the moon, which follows it, 2 by the day, when it displays it, 3 And by the night as it conceals it (the sun); 4 And by the heaven and Him Who built it; 5 And the earth and Him Who spread it, 6 By the soul, and That which shaped it 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 prosperous is he who purified 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 When the most wretched of them was sent forth. 12 So Allah's apostle said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) 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 fears not the issue thereof. 15