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| وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا {١} |
1. I call to witness the sun and its light and heat, |
| وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا {٢} |
2. And the moon when it borrows light from it (- the sun), |
| وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّاهَا {٣} |
3. And the day when it reveals its (- the sun´s) glory, |
| وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَاهَا {٤} |
4. And the night when it draws a veil over it, |
| وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا {٥} |
5. And the heaven and That (Great Omnifice Divinity) Who made it, |
| وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَاهَا {٦} |
6. And the earth and That (Great Being) Who expanded it, |
| وَنَفْسٍ وَمَا سَوَّاهَا {٧} |
7. And the (human) soul and That (Mighty Lord) Who made it perfect, |
| فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا {٨} |
8. Then He revealed to it (- the soul, the ways of) its evil and its righteousness, |
| قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا {٩} |
9. (All these are cited to witness that) one who purifies it (- his soul), certainly succeeds, |
| وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ دَسَّاهَا {١٠} |
10. And he indeed is ruined who corrupts it. |
| كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَاهَا {١١} |
11. (The tribe of) Thamûd belied (Sâlih,) because of their rebelliousness. |
| إِذِ انْبَعَثَ أَشْقَاهَا {١٢} |
12. (It was) when the wretched-most among them arose, |
| فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَاقَةَ اللَّهِ وَسُقْيَاهَا {١٣} |
13. And Allâh´s Messenger said to them, `(Do not interfere with) the she-camel (- a symbol appointed by the command) of Allâh and (do not obstruct) her (from) watering.´ |
| فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا {١٤} |
14. But they belied (and disobeyed) him and hamstrung her. Then their Lord destroyed them completely for their sin, so much so that He leveled them (all to the ground). |
| وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَاهَا {١٥} |
15. And He did not care at all for their end (as to what an utterly miserable state they were reduced). |
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