Sura Xci. Shams, Or The Sun

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

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Sra Xci.

\"SHAMS," Or The Sun.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1. By the Sun

And his (glorious) splendour;

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;

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6. By the Earth

And its (wide) expanse;

7. By the Soul,

And the proportion and order

Given to it;

8. And its enlightenment

As to its wrong

And its right;--

9. Truly he succeeds

That purifies it,

10. And he fails

That corrupts it!

11. The Thamd (people)

Rejected (their prophet)

Through their inordinate

Wrong-doing.

12. Behold, the most wicked

Man among them was

Deputed (for impiety).

13. But the apostle of God

Said to them: "It is

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A She-camel of God!

And (bar her not

From) having her drink!"

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)!

15. And for Him

Is no fear

Of its consequences.

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