# Sura  91 - The Sun

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> SURA XCI (91) - The Sun  (Mecca - 15 Verses)             (XXIII - 38)           
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the Sun and his noonday brightness!
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>        By the Moon when she followeth him!
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>        By the Day when it revealeth his glory!
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>        By the Night when it enshroudeth him!
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>        By the Heaven and Him who built it!
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>        By the Earth and Him who spread it forth!
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>        And breathed into it its wickedness and its piety,
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>        Blessed now is he who hath kept it pure,
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> 91:10  And undone is he who hath corrupted it!
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>        Themoud in his impiety rejected the message of the Lord,
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>        When the greatest wretch among them rushed up: -
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>        Said the Apostle of God to them - "The Camel of God! let her drink."
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>        But they treated him as an impostor and hamstrung her.
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>        So their Lord destroyed them for their crime, and visited all alike:
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>        Nor feared he the issue.
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> — *Sura  91 - The Sun*