The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the sky is rent asunder, 1 And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so; 2 And when the earth is flattened out, 3 And it unburdens itself of all that is in it, and becomes empty. 4 And attentive to her Lord in fear! 5 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it. 6 And he who is given his ledger in his right hand 7 He surely will receive an easy reckoning, 8 And he will turn to his people, rejoicing! 9 But as for him whose record shall be given to him behind his back; 10 shall call for destruction 11 and he will enter the blazing flame. 12 They lived among their people joyfully 13 he surely thought he would never revert. 14 Why not? His Lord was always watching him. 15 I do not need to swear by the sunset, 16 by the night and all that it envelops; 17 And the Moon in her fullness: 18 That you shall most certainly enter one state after another. 19 What is the matter with them, that they do not believe 20 And when the Quran is recited to them, they fall not prostrate, ۩ 21 In fact the disbelievers keep denying. 22 And Allah is most knowing of what they keep within themselves. 23 So give them tidings of a painful punishment, 24 Except those who believe and do the right: For them there is reward unending. 25