مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلشَّمْسِ وَضُحَىٰهَا ۝١

CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness,

وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَىٰهَا ۝٢

and the moon as it reflects the sun!

وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّىٰهَا ۝۳

Consider the day as it reveals the world,

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰهَا ۝٤

and the night as it veils it darkly!

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا ۝٥

Consider the sky and its wondrous make,

وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰهَا ۝٦

and the earth and all its expanse!

وَنَفْسٍۢ وَمَا سَوَّىٰهَا ۝۷

Consider the human self, and how it is formed in accordance with what it is meant to be,

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا ۝۸

and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God!

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّىٰهَا ۝۹

To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity,

وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا ۝١۰

and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness].

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَىٰهَآ ۝١١

TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud,

إِذِ ٱنۢبَعَثَ أَشْقَىٰهَا ۝١٢

when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed],

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ نَاقَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَسُقْيَٰهَا ۝١۳

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 ۝١٤

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 ۝١٥

for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them.