: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.
