الشمس

1CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness,

2and the moon as it reflects the sun!

3Consider the day as it reveals the world,

4and the night as it veils it darkly!

5Consider the sky and its wondrous make,

6and the earth and all its expanse!

7Consider the human self, and how it is formed in accordance with what it is meant to be,

8and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God!

9To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity,

10and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].

11TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud,

12when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed],

13although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!"

14But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike:

15for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them.