{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/091.htm","path":"isl/091.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/091.htm","text":"THE CHAPTER OF THE SUN\n(XCI. Mecca.)\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nBy the sun and its noonday brightness!\nAnd the moon when it follows him!\nAnd the day when it displays him!\nAnd the night when it covers him!\nAnd the heaven and what built it!\nAnd the earth and what spread it!\nAnd the soul and what fashioned it, and taught it\nits sin and its piety!\nProsperous is he who purifies it!\nAnd disappointed is he who corrupts it!\nThamud called the apostle a liar in their outrage, when their wretch rose up and the apostle of God said to them, Gods she-camel! so give her to drink.\nBut 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!","title":"091","type":"page"}