The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ WHEN THE SKY is cleft asunder, 1 And hearkens to its Lord and is dutiful, 2 When the earth is stretched out taut 3 and casts out what is within it and is emptied, 4 and hearkens to the command of its Lord, doing what it should. 5 O man! verily thou art toiling toward thy Lord a painful toiling, and art about to meet Him. 6 Then he who is given his Record in his right hand, 7 He truly will receive an easy reckoning 8 and they will return to their people, delighted 9 But he who is given the Record behind his back, 10 He will cry out for destruction 11 but he will enter the blazing flame. 12 He once lived among his family joyfully; 13 He assumed that he does not have to return. 14 Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him. 15 So I swear by the afterglow of sunset; 16 and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds, 17 or by the moon when it is full, 18 That you shall most certainly enter one state after another. 19 What is the matter with them, that they believe not? 20 and when the Koran is recited to them they do not bow? ۩ 21 Instead, the unbelievers reject it, calling it a lie. 22 And Allah is most knowing of what they keep within themselves. 23 So announce to them a painful torment. 24 Except to those who believe and work righteous deeds: For them is a Reward that will never fail. 25