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English - Chapter 91
Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Verse 1
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour
Verse 2
By the Moon as she follows him
Verse 3
By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory
Verse 4
By the Night as it conceals it
Verse 5
By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure
Verse 6
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse
Verse 7
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it
Verse 8
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right
Verse 9
Truly he succeeds that purifies it
Verse 10
And he fails that corrupts it
Verse 11
The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing
Verse 12
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety)
Verse 13
But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink
Verse 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)
Verse 15
And for Him is no fear of its consequences