Chapter 91, 15 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the sun and his brightness,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والشمس وضحاها
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;
And the moon when she followeth him,
والقمر إذا تلاها
By the Moon as she follows him;
And the day when it revealeth him,
والنهار إذا جلاها
By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;
And the night when it enshroudeth him,
والليل إذا يغشاها
By the Night as it conceals it;
And the heaven and Him Who built it,
والسماء وما بناها
By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;
And the earth and Him Who spread it,
والأرض وما طحاها
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:
And a soul and Him Who perfected it
ونفس وما سواها
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
And inspired it (with conscience of) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it.
فألهمها فجورها وتقواها
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right; -
He is indeed who causeth it to grow,
قد أفلح من زكاها
Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
And he is indeed a failure who stunteth it.
وقد خاب من دساها
And he fails that corrupts it!
(The tribe of) Thamud denied (the truth) in their rebellious pride,
كذبت ثمود بطغواها
The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong - doing,
When the basest of them broke forth
إذ انبعث أشقاها
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).
And the messenger of Allah said: It is the she - camel of Allah, so let her drink!
فقال لهم رسول الله ناقة الله وسقياها
But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She - camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"
But they denied him, and they hamstrung her, so Allah doomed them for their sin and rased (their dwellings).
فكذبوه فعقروها فدمدم عليهم ربهم بذنبهم فسواها
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)!
He dreadeth not the sequel (of events).
ولا يخاف عقباها
And for Him is no fear of its consequences.