The Guiding Light — Page 447
S u rah ash-Shams, Chapter 91 447 Translation In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. ] By the sun and the time when it begins to radiate, And by the moon when it follows it (the sun), And by the day when it reveals its glory, And by the night when it draws a veil over it, And by the heaven and its making, And by the earth and its spreading out, And by the soul and its perfection — And He revealed to it what is wrong for it and what is right for it — Surely, he prospers who augments it, And he who corrupts it is ruined. The tribe of Thamud denied the truth because of their rebelliousness. When the most wretched among them got up, Then the Messenger of Allah said, ‘Leave alone the she-camel of Allah, and let her drink. ’ But they rejected him and hamstrung her, so their Lord destroyed them completely because of their sin, and levelled them to the ground. And He cared not for the consequences thereof.