Al Inshiqaq

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. When the heaven is split asunder

1 When the sky has split [open]

2 And attentive to her Lord in fear,

2 And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so]

3 And when the earth is spread out

3 And when the earth has been extended

4 And hath cast out all that was in her, and is empty

4 And has cast out that within it and relinquished [it]

5 And attentive to her Lord in fear!

5 And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] -

6 Thou, verily, O man, art working toward thy Lord a work which thou wilt meet (in His presence).

6 O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it.

7 Then whoso is given his account in his right hand

7 Then as for he who is given his record in his right hand,

8 He truly will receive an easy reckoning

8 He will be judged with an easy account

9 And will return unto his folk in joy.

9 And return to his people in happiness.

10 But whoso is given his account behind his back,

10 But as for he who is given his record behind his back,

11 He surely will invoke destruction

11 He will cry out for destruction

12 And be thrown to scorching fire.

12 And [enter to] burn in a Blaze.

13 He verily lived joyous with his folk,

13 Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness;

14 He verily deemed that he would never return (unto Allah).

14 Indeed, he had thought he would never return [to Allah].

15 Nay, but lo! his Lord is ever looking on him!

15 But yes! Indeed, his Lord was ever of him, Seeing.

16 Oh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset,

16 So I swear by the twilight glow

17 And by the night and all that it enshroudeth,

17 And [by] the night and what it envelops

18 And by the moon when she is at the full,

18 And [by] the moon when it becomes full

19 That ye shall journey on from plane to plane.

19 [That] you will surely experience state after state.

20 What aileth them, then, that they believe not

20 So what is [the matter] with them [that] they do not believe,

21 And, when the Qur'an is recited unto them, worship not (Allah) ?

21 And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate [to Allah]?

22 Nay, but those who disbelieve will deny;

22 But those who have disbelieved deny,

23 And Allah knoweth best what they are hiding.

23 And Allah is most knowing of what they keep within themselves.

24 So give them tidings of a painful doom,

24 So give them tidings of a painful punishment,

25 Save those who believe and do good works, for theirs is a reward unfailing.

25 Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds. For them is a reward uninterrupted.