The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the sky is rent asunder 1 And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so; 2 When the earth is stretched out taut 3 And casts forth what is within it and becomes (clean) empty, 4 And obeys its Lord and it must. 5 O thou man! Verily thou art ever toiling on towards thy Lord- painfully toiling,- but thou shalt meet Him. 6 And he who is given his ledger in his right hand 7 He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning, 8 And he will return to his family rejoicing. 9 And whoever is given his record of deeds behind his back – 10 he will pray for utter destruction 11 And shall enter a blazing Fire, and made to taste its burning. 12 They lived among their people joyfully 13 and had thought that they would never be brought back to life again. 14 Why not? His Lord was always watching him. 15 I swear by the afterglow of sunset, 16 And the night and that which it drives on, 17 And the moon when at the full, 18 You will surely go up level by level. 19 What is wrong with them that they do not believe? 20 And that, when the Qur'an is read unto them, they prostrate not them-selves! ۩ 21 But those who have disbelieved deny, 22 But Allah has full knowledge of what they secrete (in their breasts) 23 So give them tidings of a painful punishment, 24 except the righteously striving believers, who will receive a never-ending reward. 25