بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلشَّمْسِ وَضُحَىٰهَا ﴿1﴾
Muhammad Asad
CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness,
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وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَىٰهَا ﴿2﴾
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and the moon as it reflects the sun!
وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّىٰهَا ﴿3﴾
Muhammad Asad
Consider the day as it reveals the world,
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰهَا ﴿4﴾
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and the night as it veils it darkly!
وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا ﴿5﴾
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Consider the sky and its wondrous make,
وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰهَا ﴿6﴾
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and the earth and all its expanse!
وَنَفْسٍۢ وَمَا سَوَّىٰهَا ﴿7﴾
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Consider the human self, and how it is formed in accordance with what it is meant to be,
فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا ﴿8﴾
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and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God!
قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّىٰهَا ﴿9﴾
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To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity,
وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا ﴿10﴾
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and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَىٰهَآ ﴿11﴾
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TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud,
إِذِ ٱنۢبَعَثَ أَشْقَىٰهَا ﴿12﴾
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when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed],
فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ نَاقَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَسُقْيَٰهَا ﴿13﴾
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although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!"
فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنۢبِهِمْ فَسَوَّىٰهَا ﴿14﴾
Muhammad Asad
But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her - whereupon their Sustainer visited them with utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike:
وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَٰهَا ﴿15﴾
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for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them.