Chapter 91, 15 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By the sun and its brightness.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والشمس وضحاها
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;
By the moon as it follows it (the sun).
والقمر إذا تلاها
By the Moon as she follows him;
By the day as it shows up (the sun's) brightness.
والنهار إذا جلاها
By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;
By the night as it conceals it (the sun).
والليل إذا يغشاها
By the Night as it conceals it;
By the heaven and Him Who built it.
والسماء وما بناها
By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;
By the earth and Him Who spread it.
والأرض وما طحاها
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:
By Nafs (Adam or a person or a soul), and Him Who perfected him in proportion;
ونفس وما سواها
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him.
فألهمها فجورها وتقواها
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right; -
Indeed he succeeds who purifies his ownself (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allah ordered, by following the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds).
قد أفلح من زكاها
Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allah has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism or by following polytheism or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds).
وقد خاب من دساها
And he fails that corrupts it!
Thamud (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin).
كذبت ثمود بطغواها
The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong - doing,
When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel).
إذ انبعث أشقاها
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).
But the Messenger of Allah [Salih عليه السلام] said to them: "Be cautious! (Fear the evil end). That is the she-camel of Allah! (Do not harm it) and bar it not from having its 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!"
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.)!
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)!
And He (Allah) feared not the consequences thereof.
ولا يخاف عقباها
And for Him is no fear of its consequences.