The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the heaven bursts asunder, 1 And attentive to her Lord in fear, 2 when the earth flattens out, 3 And casts forth what is within it and becomes (clean) empty, 4 obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must: 5 O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him. 6 And he who is given his ledger in his right hand 7 He truly will receive an easy reckoning 8 and they will return to their people, delighted 9 But he who is given his Book from behind his back 10 He will invoke (his) destruction, 11 They will suffer the heat of hell fire. 12 He verily lived joyous with his folk, 13 He assumed that he does not have to return. 14 Yes! Verily, his Lord has been ever beholding him! 15 No! I swear by the twilight 16 And by the night and that which it driveth together, 17 and the moon when it is at the full, 18 [even thus, O men,] are you bound to move; onward from stage to stage. 19 What is the matter with them, that they believe not? 20 And when the Quran is recited to them, they fall not prostrate, ۩ 21 But those who have disbelieved deny, 22 but God knows best whatever they accumulate in their hearts. 23 So announce to them a painful torment. 24 Except those who believe and do the right: For them there is reward unending. 25