Al Infitar

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. When the heaven is cleft asunder.

Shakir

1 When the heaven becomes cleft asunder,

Pickthall

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 And when the stars have fallen and scattered.

Shakir

2 And when the stars become dispersed,

Pickthall

2 When the planets are dispersed,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 And when the seas are burst forth.

Shakir

3 And when the seas are made to flow forth,

Pickthall

3 When the seas are poured forth,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 And when the graves are turned upside down (and bring out their contents)

Shakir

4 And when the graves are laid open,

Pickthall

4 And the sepulchres are overturned,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 (Then) a person will know what he has sent forward and (what he has) left behind (of good or bad deeds).

Shakir

5 Every soul shall know what it has sent before and held back.

Pickthall

5 A soul will know what it hath sent before (it) and what left behind.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

6 O man! What has made you careless about your Lord, the Most Generous?

Shakir

6 O man! what has beguiled you from your Lord, the Gracious one,

Pickthall

6 O man! What hath made thee careless concerning thy Lord, the Bountiful,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 Who created you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion.

Shakir

7 Who created you, then made you complete, then made you symmetrical?

Pickthall

7 Who created thee, then fashioned, then proportioned thee ?

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 In whatever form He willed, He put you together.

Shakir

8 Into whatever form He pleased He constituted you.

Pickthall

8 Into whatsoever form He will, He casteth thee.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 Nay! But you deny Ad-Din (i.e. the Day of Recompense).

Shakir

9 Nay! but you give the lie to the judgment day,

Pickthall

9 Nay, but ye deny the Judgment.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

10 But verily, over you (are appointed angels in charge of mankind) to watch you,

Shakir

10 And most surely there are keepers over you

Pickthall

10 Lo! there are above you guardians,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 Kiraman (Honourable) Katibin writing down (your deeds),

Shakir

11 Honorable recorders,

Pickthall

11 Generous and recording,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

12 They know all that you do.

Shakir

12 They know what you do.

Pickthall

12 Who know (all) that ye do.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 Verily, the Abrar (the pious believers of Islamic Monotheism) will be in Delight (Paradise);

Shakir

13 Most surely the righteous are in bliss,

Pickthall

13 Lo! the righteous verily will be in delight.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

14 And verily, the Fujjar (the wicked, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners and evil-doers) will be in the blazing Fire (Hell),

Shakir

14 And most surely the wicked are in burning fire,

Pickthall

14 And lo! the wicked verily will be in hell;

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 Therein they will enter, and taste its burning flame on the Day of Recompense,

Shakir

15 They shall enter it on the day of judgment.

Pickthall

15 They will burn therein on the Day of Judgment,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 And they (Al-Fujjar) will not be absent therefrom.

Shakir

16 And they shall by no means be absent from it.

Pickthall

16 And will not be absent thence.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

17 And what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?

Shakir

17 And what will make you realize what the day of judgment is?

Pickthall

17 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Day of Judgment is!

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 Again, what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?

Shakir

18 Again, what will make you realize what the day of judgment is?

Pickthall

18 Again, what will convey unto thee what the Day of Judgment is!

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

19 (It will be) the Day when no person shall have power (to do) anything for another, and the Decision, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allah.

Shakir

19 The day on which no soul shall control anything for (another) soul; and the command on that day shall be entirely Allah's.

Pickthall

19 A day on which no soul hath power at all for any (other) soul. The (absolute) command on that day is Allah's.