The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the heaven is split asunder, 1 obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must; 2 when the earth flattens out, 3 And hath cast out all that was in her, and is empty 4 And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so; 5 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it. 6 The reckoning of those whose Book of records will be given into their right hands 7 He surely will receive an easy reckoning, 8 And will return to his family in joy! 9 And whoever is given his record of deeds behind his back – 10 Will pray for death, 11 and he will enter the blazing flame. 12 Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness; 13 He assumed that he does not have to return. 14 Yes indeed, his Lord was ever watching him. 15 But nay! I swear by the sunset redness, 16 or by the night in which things all come together to rest, 17 and the moon, as it grows to its fullness: 18 you will progress from stage to stage. 19 What then is the matter with them, 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 very well what they gather. 23 So give them tidings of a painful punishment, 24 Except those who believe and do the right: For them there is reward unending. 25