By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour
By the Moon as she follows him
By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory
By the Night as it conceals it
By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure
By the Earth and its (wide) expanse
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;
Truly he succeeds that purifies it
And he fails that corrupts it
The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety)
But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"
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)
And for Him is no fear of its consequences