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English - Chapter 91 - Ash-Shams
Translation by John Medows Rodwell — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:1
BY the SUN and his noonday brightness
Verse 2 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:2
By the Moon when she followeth him
Verse 3 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:3
By the Day when it revealeth his glory
Verse 4 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:4
By the Night when it enshroudeth him
Verse 5 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:5
By the Heaven and Him who built it
Verse 6 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:6
By the Earth and Him who spread it forth
Verse 7 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:7
By a Soul and Him who balanced it
Verse 8 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:8
And breathed into it its wickedness and its piety
Verse 9 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:9
Blessed now is he who hath kept it pure
Verse 10 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:10
And undone is he who hath corrupted it
Verse 11 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:11
Themoud in his impiety rejected the message of the Lord
Verse 12 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:12
When the greatest wretch among them rushed up
Verse 13 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:13
Said the Apostle of God to them, - "The Camel of God! let her drink
Verse 14 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:14
But they treated him as an impostor and hamstrung her. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime, and visited all alike
Verse 15 — Surah Ash-Shams 91:15
Nor feared he the issue