The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ When the heaven is sundered. 1 in obedience to the commands of their Lord which are incumbent on them, 2 and when the earth is stretched out 3 And casts forth what is within it and becomes (clean) empty, 4 obeying its Lord, as it must do! 5 O man! verily thou art toiling toward thy Lord a painful toiling, and art about to meet Him. 6 Then as to him who shall be given his book in his right hand 7 he will in time be called to account with an easy accounting, 8 And he shall go back to his people joyful. 9 But whoso is given his account behind his back, 10 Soon will he cry for perdition, 11 and he will enter the blazing flame. 12 Once, he lived joyfully among his family 13 and surely thought he would never return (to his Lord). 14 Yea! his Lord had ever been beholding him. 15 So by oath of the late evening’s light. 16 by the night and all that it envelops; 17 And the moon when it grows full, 18 you shall proceed onwards from stage to stage. 19 Then what ails them, that they believe not, 20 and [that,] when the Qur'an is read unto them, they do not fall down in prostration? ۩ 21 No, the unbelievers only belie, 22 Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts]. 23 So give them news of painful punishment, 24 Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds. For them is a reward uninterrupted. 25