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