1. By the Sun
and his (glorious) splendour;
2. By the Moon as she
follows him;
3. By the Day as it shows
up (the Sun's) glory;
4. By the Night as it
conceals it;
5. By the Firmament and
its (wonderful) structure;
6. By the Earth and its
(wide) expanse:
7. By the Soul, and the
proportion and order given to it;
8. And its enlightenment
as to its wrong and its right;-
9. Truly he succeeds
that purifies it,
10. And he fails that
corrupts it!
11. The Thamud (people)
rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,
12. Behold, the most
wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).
13. But the Messenger
of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah. And (bar her
not from) having her drink!"
14. 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)!
15. And for Him is no
fear of its consequences.
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