Chapter 84, 25 verses
When the heaven bursts asunder,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إذا السماء انشقت
When the sky has split [open]
And obeys its Lord and it must.
وأذنت لربها وحقت
And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so]
And when the earth is stretched,
وإذا الأرض مدت
And when the earth has been extended
And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty,
وألقت ما فيها وتخلت
And has cast out that within it and relinquished [it]
And obeys its Lord and it must.
وأذنت لربها وحقت
And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] -
O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.
يا أيها الإنسان إنك كادح إلى ربك كدحا فملاقيه
O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it.
Then as to him who is given his book in his right hand,
فأما من أوتي كتابه بيمينه
Then as for he who is given his record in his right hand,
He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning,
فسوف يحاسب حسابا يسيرا
He will be judged with an easy account
And he shall go back to his people joyful.
وينقلب إلى أهله مسرورا
And return to his people in happiness.
And as to him who is given his book behind his back,
وأما من أوتي كتابه وراء ظهره
But as for he who is given his record behind his back,
He shall call for perdition,
فسوف يدعو ثبورا
He will cry out for destruction
And enter into burning fire.
ويصلى سعيرا
And [enter to] burn in a Blaze.
Surely he was (erstwhile) joyful among his followers.
إنه كان في أهله مسرورا
Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness;
Surely he thought that he would never return.
إنه ظن أن لن يحور
Indeed, he had thought he would never return [to Allah].
Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him.
بلى إن ربه كان به بصيرا
But yes! Indeed, his Lord was ever of him, Seeing.
But nay! I swear by the sunset redness,
فلا أقسم بالشفق
So I swear by the twilight glow
And the night and that which it drives on,
والليل وما وسق
And [by] the night and what it envelops
And the moon when it grows full,
والقمر إذا اتسق
And [by] the moon when it becomes full
That you shall most certainly enter one state after another.
لتركبن طبقا عن طبق
[That] you will surely experience state after state.
But what is the matter with them that they do not believe,
فما لهم لا يؤمنون
So what is [the matter] with them [that] they do not believe,
And when the Quran is recited to them they do not make obeisance?
وإذا قرئ عليهم القرآن لا يسجدون ۩
And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate [to Allah]?
Nay! those who disbelieve give the lie to the truth.
بل الذين كفروا يكذبون
But those who have disbelieved deny,
And Allah knows best what they hide,
والله أعلم بما يوعون
And Allah is most knowing of what they keep within themselves.
So announce to them a painful punishment~
فبشرهم بعذاب أليم
So give them tidings of a painful punishment,
Except those who believe and do good; for them is a reward that shall never be cut off.
إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لهم أجر غير ممنون
Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds. For them is a reward uninterrupted.