The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/91. The Sun
91. The Sun (Al-Shams)
[edit]In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
1 By the sun and his brightness!
2 And the moon when she borrows light from him!
3 And the day when it exposes it to view!
4 And the night when it draws a veil over it!
5 And the heaven and its make!
6 And the earth and its extension!
7 And the soul and its perfection!
8 So He reveals to it its way of evil and its way of good;
9 He is indeed successful who causes it to grow,
10 And he indeed fails who buries it.
11 Thamud rejected (the truth) in their inordinacy,
12 When the basest of them broke forth with mischief --
13 So Allah's messenger said to them (Leave alone) Allah's she-camel, and (give) her (to) drink.
14 But they called him a liar and slaughtered her. So their Lord destroyed them for their sin and levelled them (with the ground)
15 And He fears not its consequence.