Revealed before the Hijrah. This chapter has 15 verses.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

1. By the Sun and his (glorious) splendor;

2. By the Moon as she follows him;

3. By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;

4. By the Night as it conceals it;

5. By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;

6. By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:

7. By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;

8. And its inspiration as to its wrong and its right;-

9. Truly he succeeds that purifies it,

10. And he fails that corrupts it!

11. The Thamüd (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,

12. Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).

13. But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"

14. Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin and leveled them!

15. And for Him is no fear of its consequences.