91. Sura ash-Shams with Urdu Translation

Sura 91. ash-Shams (the Sun):

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Ever-Merciful.

1. By the sun and by its brightness,

2. And by the moon when it follows the sun (reflects sunshine),

3. And by the day when it displays the sun (brings it forth shining),

4. And by the night when it draws a veil over the sun (from one of the hemispheres of the earth),

5. And by the heaven and by that (energy) which built it (with Allah’s permission in the form of a vast universe),

6. And by the earth and by that (force which, by Allah’s Command,) pulled it (from the sun far) apart.

7. And by the human soul and by the One Who provided it with an all-dimensional poise, proportion and perfection,

8. Then He inspired it with (discrimination between) vice and virtue,

9. Indeed the one who purifies his (ill-commanding) self (from all vain and vicious desires and cultivates in it virtue and piousness) succeeds,

10. But the one who corrupts himself (in sins and suppresses virtue) is doomed indeed.

11. The people of Thamud rejected (their Messenger Salih) due to their rebellion.

12. When the most wretched of them stood up.

13. Allah’s Messenger said to them: ‘Guard (that) she-camel and (the time of) her taking water.’

14. But they rejected the Messenger and hamstrung (the she-camel). So because of their sin their Lord sent down destruction on them and levelled (them all in the torment devastating) the town.

15. And Allah does not fear any repercussions of this (devastation).