The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
۞ When the sky is rent asunder 1 hearing and obeying its Lord, as it must do; 2 And when the earth is flattened out, 3 and casts out what is within it and is emptied, 4 And attentive to her Lord in fear! 5 O man, you have to strive and go on striving towards your Lord, then will you meet Him. 6 Then as for he who is given his record in his right hand, 7 Soon will his account be taken by an easy reckoning, 8 And he will return to his family rejoicing. 9 But whoso is given his account behind his back, 10 shall call for destruction 11 but he will enter the blazing flame. 12 Truly, did he go about among his people, rejoicing! 13 Surely he thought that he would never return. 14 Why not? His Lord was always watching him. 15 I swear by the glow of sunset, 16 and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds, 17 by the moon, in its fullness 18 You will surely go up level by level. 19 What then is the matter with them, that they believe not?- 20 And when the Qur'an is recited to them do not bow in adoration? ۩ 21 Yea those who disbelieve belie. 22 But God knows what they harbour in their breasts. 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