The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ When the sky bursts open, 1 hearing and obeying its Lord, as it must do; 2 And when the earth shall be stretched forth. 3 and casts out what is within it and is emptied, 4 And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] - 5 O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him. 6 Whoever is given the Record in his right hand 7 Will have an easy reckoning, 8 And will return unto his folk in joy. 9 But whoso is given his account behind his back, 10 He will invoke (his) destruction, 11 and will enter the Blazing Fire. 12 He verily lived joyous with his folk, 13 thinking he would never revert (to Us). 14 Yea! his Lord had ever been beholding him. 15 So I swear by the twilight glow 16 And by the night and all that it enshroudeth, 17 And by the moon when it is at the full, 18 Ye shall surely travel from stage to stage. 19 Then what ails them, that they believe not, 20 and when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate themselves? ۩ 21 In fact the unbelievers disavow. 22 And Allah well knows what they conceal in their hearts. 23 So give them good tidings of a painful chastisement, 24 Except to those who believe and work righteous deeds: For them is a Reward that will never fail. 25