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91:1  By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour
91:2  By the Moon as she follows him
91:3  By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory
91:4  By the Night as it conceals it
91:5  By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure
91:6  By the Earth and its (wide) expanse
91:7  By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it
91:8  And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;
91:9  Truly he succeeds that purifies it
91:10  And he fails that corrupts it
91:11  The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing
91:12  Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety)
91:13  But the Apostle of God said to them: "It is a She-camel of God! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"
91:14  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)
91:15  And for Him is no fear of its consequences