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English - Chapter 91 - Ash-Shams
Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:1
By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour
Verse 2 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:2
By the Moon as she follows him
Verse 3 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:3
By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory
Verse 4 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:4
By the Night as it conceals it
Verse 5 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:5
By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure
Verse 6 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:6
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse
Verse 7 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:7
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it
Verse 8 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:8
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right
Verse 9 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:9
Truly he succeeds that purifies it
Verse 10 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:10
And he fails that corrupts it
Verse 11 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:11
The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing
Verse 12 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:12
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety)
Verse 13 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:13
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 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:14
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 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:15
And for Him is no fear of its consequences