The Splitting (Al-Inshiqaaq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ When the heaven is sundered. 1 And attentive to her Lord in fear, 2 when the earth is stretched out 3 and throws out of itself all that it contains 4 obeying its Lord, as it must do! 5 O man, having striven hard towards your Lord, you shall meet Him: 6 Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, 7 he shall surely receive an easy reckoning 8 And he will return to his family rejoicing. 9 But he who is given his Record behind his back,- 10 He surely will invoke destruction 11 and roast at the Blaze. 12 Once, he lived joyfully among his family 13 Surely he thought that he would never return. 14 Yes indeed; his Lord had sight of him. 15 Oh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset, 16 or by the night in which things all come together to rest, 17 by the moon, in its fullness 18 That you will climb from stage to stage. 19 What aileth them, then, that they believe not 20 And that, when the Qur'an is read unto them, they prostrate not them-selves! ۩ 21 In fact the disbelievers keep denying. 22 God is quite aware of what they are storing in their hearts. 23 So announce to them a painful punishment~ 24 except those that believe, and do righteous deeds -- theirs shall be a wage unfailing. 25