# Sura  91 - The Sun

*Exported from [Holy-Writings.com](https://www.holy-writings.com/) on 2026-06-19 — 1 clipping.*

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> THE CHAPTER OF THE SUN
> (XCI. Mecca.)
> IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
> By the sun and its noonday brightness!
> And the moon when it follows him!
> And the day when it displays him!
> And the night when it covers him!
> And the heaven and what built it!
> And the earth and what spread it!
> And the soul and what fashioned it, and taught it
> its sin and its piety!
> Prosperous is he who purifies it!
> And disappointed is he who corrupts it!
> Thamud called the apostle a liar in their outrage, when their wretch rose up and the apostle of God said to them, 'God's she-camel! so give her to drink.'
> But they called him a liar, and they ham-strung her; but their Lord destroyed them in their sins, and served them all alike; and He fears not the result thereof!
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> — *Sura  91 - The Sun*