Ash-Shams Verse 1

By the sun and its brightness,

By the sun and its brightness,

By the sun and his morning brightness

By the sun in its morning brightness

By the sun and his morning bright-ness,

By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;

By the sun and its heat and brightness,

I CALL TO witness the sun and his early morning splendour,

By oath of the sun and its light

By the sun and her forenoon splendour,

By the sun and its brightness;

I call to witness the sun and its light and heat,

And/by the sun and its sunrise/day light .

By oath of the sun and its light

By the sun and its noonday brightness!

And by the sun and its brightness;

And the moon when she borrows light from him!

I swear by the sun and its brilliance,

By the sun and his brightness,

By the sun and its noon-time brightness,

By the sun and its midmorning,

By the sun and Duhaha.

By the sun and its rising brightness

By the sun and its radiance.

By the sun and her morning light,

Allah swears by His Creation that the Person Who purifies Himself will be Successful and the Person Who corrupts Himself will fail

وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا




By the sun and Duhaha.

Mujahid said, "This means, by its light."

Qatadah said,
وَضُحَـهَا
wa Duhaha. "The whole day."

Ibn Jarir said,

"The correct view is what has been said, `Allah swears by the sun and its daytime, because the clear light of the sun is daytime."'

وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا