The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the heaven is split asunder, 1 And attentive to her Lord in fear, 2 When the earth is stretched out taut 3 and casts out what is within it and is emptied, 4 And it hearkeneth to its Lord, and is duteous. 5 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it. 6 Then whoso is given his account in his right hand 7 He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning, 8 And return to his people in happiness. 9 And as to him who shall be given his book from behind his back 10 He surely will invoke destruction 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! surely his Lord does ever see him. 15 I do not need to swear by the sunset, 16 by the night and what it covers, 17 And [by] the moon when it becomes full 18 you shall surely ride stage after stage. 19 What aileth them then, that they believe not, 20 And, when the Qur'an is recited unto them, worship not (Allah)? ۩ 21 Indeed, those who are bent on denying the truth reject it -- 22 and God knows very well what they are secreting. 23 Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] 24 Except those who believe and do the right: For them there is reward unending. 25