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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

وَٱلشَّمْسِ وَضُحَىٰهَا

By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;

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وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَىٰهَا

By the Moon as she follows him;

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وَٱلنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّىٰهَا

By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;

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وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَىٰهَا

By the Night as it conceals it;

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وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَمَا بَنَىٰهَا

By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;

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وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا طَحَىٰهَا

By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:

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وَنَفْسٍۢ وَمَا سَوَّىٰهَا

By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;

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فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا

And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-

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قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَن زَكَّىٰهَا

Truly he succeeds that purifies it,

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وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا

And he fails that corrupts it!

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كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِطَغْوَىٰهَآ

The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,

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إِذِ ٱنۢبَعَثَ أَشْقَىٰهَا

Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).

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فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ نَاقَةَ ٱللَّهِ وَسُقْيَـٰهَا

But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"

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فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنۢبِهِمْ فَسَوَّىٰهَا

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)!

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وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَـٰهَا

And for Him is no fear of its consequences.

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