The Sun (Al-Shams)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the sun and its rising brightness 1 And by oath of the moon when it follows the sun 2 and by the day as it reveals its glory 3 and the night as it veils it darkly! 4 And by the heaven and Him Who built it; 5 and the earth and all its expanse! 6 And a soul and Him Who perfected it 7 then inspired it to understand what was right and wrong for it. 8 He who purifies it will prosper, 9 and failed is he who buried it! 10 Thamud belied in their exorbitance. 11 Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety). 12 Then Allah's Messenger warned them: “Hands off the she-camel and 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 for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. 15