The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the sky is rent asunder, 1 And attentive to her Lord in fear, 2 And when the earth shall be stretched forth. 3 And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty, 4 And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] - 5 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it. 6 Then as to him who is given his book in his right hand, 7 He will be judged with an easy account 8 and shall return to his people joyfully. 9 But he who is given his Book from behind his back 10 shall call for destruction 11 And be thrown to scorching fire. 12 He used to be happy with his own people; 13 and had thought that they would never be brought back to life again. 14 Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him. 15 I swear by the twilight; 16 or by the night in which things all come together to rest, 17 and the moon when it is at the full, 18 you will progress from stage to stage. 19 What aileth them then, that they believe not, 20 And when the Qur'an is read to them, they fall not prostrate, ۩ 21 Instead, the unbelievers reject it, calling it a lie. 22 And Allah knows best what they hide, 23 So give them good tidings of a painful chastisement, 24 Except those who believe and do the right: For them there is reward unending. 25