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By the sun and its rising it
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and by the earth and how He brightness
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and by the moon as spread it,
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by the soul and how it follows it,
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and by the day as He formed it,
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then inspired it to it reveals its glory
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and by the understand what was right and night when it draws a veil over wrong for it.
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by the sky and how He built will indeed be successful,
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and he who corrupts it is sure to fail.
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The Thamud tribe rejected the truth because of their arrogance,
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when the most wicked man among them rose up.
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Then the messenger of God said to them, 'This is God's she-camel. Let her drink.'
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But they gave him the lie, and hamstrung the she-camel. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime and razed their city to the ground.
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He did not fear the consequences.