Surah Ash-Shams سُورَةُ الشَّمۡسِ

وَٱلشَّمْسِ وَضُحَىٰهَا1

By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;

وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَىٰهَا2

By the Moon as she follows him;

وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّىٰهَا3

By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰهَا4

By the Night as it conceals it;

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا5

By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;

وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰهَا6

By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:

وَنَفْسٍۢ وَمَا سَوَّىٰهَا7

By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا8

And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّىٰهَا9

Truly he succeeds that purifies it,

وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا10

And he fails that corrupts it!

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَىٰهَآ11

The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,

إِذِ ٱنۢبَعَثَ أَشْقَىٰهَا12

Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ نَاقَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَسُقْيَٰهَا13

But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنۢبِهِمْ فَسَوَّىٰهَا14

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)!

وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَٰهَا15

And for Him is no fear of its consequences.