By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it;
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And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-
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Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
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And he fails that corrupts it!
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The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,
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Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).
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But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! And (bar her not from) having her drink!"
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Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)!