The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ When the sky bursts open, 1 And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so; 2 when earth is stretched out 3 And hath cast out all that was in her, and is empty 4 and hearkens to the command of its Lord, doing what it should. 5 O man, having striven hard towards your Lord, you shall meet Him: 6 Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, 7 shall be called to an easy accounting, 8 And he shall go back to his people joyful. 9 but as for him whose record shall be given to him from behind his back, 10 shall cry for “perdition,” 11 and he shall roast at a Blaze. 12 Indeed he used to rejoice in his home. 13 thinking he would never revert (to Us). 14 Why not? His Lord was always watching him. 15 No! I swear by the twilight 16 and the night and what it envelops 17 And [by] the moon when it becomes full 18 you will progress from stage to stage. 19 Then what ails them, that they believe not, 20 and when the Koran is recited to them that they do not prostrate! ۩ 21 Nay, but those who disbelieve will deny; 22 And Allah knoweth best what they are hiding. 23 Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] 24 except those that believe, and do righteous deeds -- theirs shall be a wage unfailing. 25