The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the sky has split [open] 1 hearing and obeying its Lord, as it must do; 2 And when the earth has been extended 3 and throws out of itself all that it contains 4 And attentive to her Lord in fear! 5 O human, you are working hard towards your Lord and you will meet Him. 6 So whoever is given his record of deeds in his right hand – 7 shall be called to an easy accounting, 8 and he will return to his family joyfully. 9 And as to him who shall be given his book from behind his back 10 he will in time pray for utter destruction: 11 They will suffer the heat of hell fire. 12 Behold, [in his earthly life] he lived joyfully among people of his own kind 13 Indeed, he had thought he would never return [to Allah]. 14 But yes! Indeed, his Lord was ever of him, Seeing. 15 I swear by the afterglow of sunset, 16 And the night and all it gathers, 17 by the moon, in its fullness 18 That you shall most certainly enter one state after another. 19 What aileth them, then, that they believe not 20 and when the Koran is recited to them that they do not prostrate! ۩ 21 But those who have disbelieved deny, 22 Whereas Allah knoweth best that which they cherish. 23 So announce to them a painful punishment~ 24 except the righteously striving believers, who will receive a never-ending reward. 25