# Surah 91

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> Surah 91
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> Al Shams (The Sun)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  By the Sun and his (glorious) splendor;
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> 2.  By the Moon as she follow him;
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> 3.  By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory;
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> 4.  By the Night as it conceals it;
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> 5.  By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure;
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> 6.  By the Earth and its (wide) expanse;
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> 7.  By the Soul, and the proportion and order Given to it;
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> 8.  And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;--
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> 9.  Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
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> 10.  And he fails that corrupts it!
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> 11.  The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrongdoing.
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> 12.  Behold, the most wicked Man among them was deputed (for impiety).
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> 13.  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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> 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)!
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> 15.  And for Him is no fear of its consequences.
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> — *Surah 91*