What is "ash-shams"

Sūrat ash-Shams (, "The Sun") is the 91st sura of the Qur'an with 15 ayat. It opens with a series of solemn oaths sworn on various astronomical phenomena, the first of which, "by the sun", gives the sura its name, then on the human soul itself. It then describes the fate of Thamud, a formerly prosperous extinct Arab tribe. The prophet Saleh urged them to worship God alone, and commanded them in God's name to preserve a certain she-camel; they disobeyed and continued to reject his message, and God destroyed them all except those who had followed Salih.

Ash-Shams (, 'The Sun') was an Arabic-language Jewish weekly newspaper in Egypt. Ash-Shams was established in 1934. The editor of ash-Shams was Saad Malki. Malki political outlook combined Egyptian nationalism with moderate Zionism. Ash-Shams was closed down by the Egyptian government in May 1948.