The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ WHEN THE SKY is split asunder, 1 And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so; 2 and when the earth is stretched out 3 And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty, 4 obeying its Lord, as it must do! 5 [then,] O man - thou [that] hast, verily, been toiling towards thy Sustainer in painful toil - then shalt thou meet Him! 6 Whoever is given the Record in his right hand 7 shall have an easy reckoning 8 and shall return to his people joyfully. 9 And as to him who is given his book behind his back, 10 He will invoke (his) destruction, 11 And enter into burning fire. 12 Once, he lived joyfully among his family 13 and had thought that they would never be brought back to life again. 14 Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him. 15 So by oath of the late evening’s light. 16 And the night and all it gathers, 17 and the moon when it grows full, 18 that you will certainly pass through one stage after another. 19 Then what ails them, that they believe not, 20 And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate [to Allah]? ۩ 21 But on the contrary the Unbelievers reject (it). 22 and God knows very well what they are secreting. 23 Therefore give to them glad tidings of a painful punishment, 24 Except to those who believe and work righteous deeds: For them is a Reward that will never fail. 25