Chapter 82, 19 verses
When the heaven becomes cleft asunder,
When the Sky is cleft asunder;
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إذا السماء انفطرت
And when the stars become dispersed,
When the Stars are scattered;
وإذا الكواكب انتثرت
And when the seas are made to flow forth,
When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth;
وإذا البحار فجرت
And when the graves are laid open,
And when the Graves are turned upside down; -
وإذا القبور بعثرت
Every soul shall know what it has sent before and held back.
(Then) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and (what it hath) kept back.
علمت نفس ما قدمت وأخرت
O man! what has beguiled you from your Lord, the Gracious one,
O man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent? -
يا أيها الإنسان ما غرك بربك الكريم
Who created you, then made you complete, then made you symmetrical?
Him Who created thee. Fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just bias;
الذي خلقك فسواك فعدلك
Into whatever form He pleased He constituted you.
In whatever Form He wills, does He put thee together.
في أي صورة ما شاء ركبك
Nay! but you give the lie to the judgment day,
Nay! But ye do reject Right and Judgment!
كلا بل تكذبون بالدين
And most surely there are keepers over you
But verily over you (are appointed angels) to protect you, -
وإن عليكم لحافظين
Honorable recorders,
Kind and honourable, - Writing down (your deeds):
كراما كاتبين
They know what you do.
They know (and understand) all that ye do.
يعلمون ما تفعلون
Most surely the righteous are in bliss,
As for the Righteous, they will be in bliss;
إن الأبرار لفي نعيم
And most surely the wicked are in burning fire,
And the Wicked - they will be in the Fire,
وإن الفجار لفي جحيم
They shall enter it on the day of judgment.
Which they will enter on the Day of Judgment,
يصلونها يوم الدين
And they shall by no means be absent from it.
And they will not be able to keep away therefrom.
وما هم عنها بغائبين
And what will make you realize what the day of judgment is?
And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
وما أدراك ما يوم الدين
Again, what will make you realize what the day of judgment is?
Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
ثم ما أدراك ما يوم الدين
The day on which no soul shall control anything for (another) soul; and the command on that day shall be entirely Allah's.
(It will be) the Day when no soul shall have power (to do) aught for another: For the command, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allah.
يوم لا تملك نفس لنفس شيئا ۖ والأمر يومئذ لله