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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