The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/91. The Sun

91. The Sun (Al-Shams)

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.