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.