Surah Al-Fajr

By the dawn

and ten nights,

by the even and the odd,

by the night when it journeys on!

Is there in that an oath for a mindful man?

Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with Ad,

Iram of the pillars,

the like of which was never created in the land,

and Thamood, who hollowed the rocks in the valley,

and Pharaoh, he of the tent-pegs,

who all were insolent in the land

and worked much corruption therein?

Thy Lord unloosed on them a scourge of chastisement;

surely thy Lord is ever on the watch.

As for man, whenever his Lord tries him, and honours him, and blesses him, then he says, 'My Lord has honoured me.'