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English - Chapter 91 - Ash-Shams
Translation by Hamid S Aziz — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:1
By the sun and its noonday brightness
Verse 2 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:2
And the moon when it follows him
Verse 3 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:3
And the day when it displays him
Verse 4 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:4
And the night when it covers him
Verse 5 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:5
And the wondrous structure of the heavens and Him who built it
Verse 6 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:6
And the earth and Who spread it
Verse 7 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:7
And the soul and Who fashioned it
Verse 8 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:8
And enlightened it with what is wrong and right for it
Verse 9 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:9
He indeed is successful who causes it to grow (or purifies it)
Verse 10 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:10
And he indeed is a failure who corrupts it
Verse 11 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:11
The Thamud people denied (the Messenger) in their rebellious pride (or outrage)
Verse 12 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:12
When the basest of them rose up
Verse 13 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:13
And the Messenger of Allah (Salih) said to them, "(This is) Allah´s she-camel! So give her to drink
Verse 14 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:14
But they called him a liar, and they ham-strung her; so their Lord destroyed them in their sins, and served them all alike
Verse 15 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:15
And He fears not the result thereof