Chapter 82, 19 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. When the heaven is cleft asunder.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إذا السماء انفطرت
When the Sky is cleft asunder;
And when the stars have fallen and scattered.
وإذا الكواكب انتثرت
When the Stars are scattered;
And when the seas are burst forth.
وإذا البحار فجرت
When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth;
And when the graves are turned upside down (and bring out their contents)
وإذا القبور بعثرت
And when the Graves are turned upside down; -
(Then) a person will know what he has sent forward and (what he has) left behind (of good or bad deeds).
علمت نفس ما قدمت وأخرت
(Then) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and (what it hath) kept back.
O man! What has made you careless about your Lord, the Most Generous?
يا أيها الإنسان ما غرك بربك الكريم
O man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent? -
Who created you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion.
الذي خلقك فسواك فعدلك
Him Who created thee. Fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just bias;
In whatever form He willed, He put you together.
في أي صورة ما شاء ركبك
In whatever Form He wills, does He put thee together.
Nay! But you deny Ad-Din (i.e. the Day of Recompense).
كلا بل تكذبون بالدين
Nay! But ye do reject Right and Judgment!
But verily, over you (are appointed angels in charge of mankind) to watch you,
وإن عليكم لحافظين
But verily over you (are appointed angels) to protect you, -
Kiraman (Honourable) Katibin writing down (your deeds),
كراما كاتبين
Kind and honourable, - Writing down (your deeds):
They know all that you do.
يعلمون ما تفعلون
They know (and understand) all that ye do.
Verily, the Abrar (the pious believers of Islamic Monotheism) will be in Delight (Paradise);
إن الأبرار لفي نعيم
As for the Righteous, they will be in bliss;
And verily, the Fujjar (the wicked, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners and evil-doers) will be in the blazing Fire (Hell),
وإن الفجار لفي جحيم
And the Wicked - they will be in the Fire,
Therein they will enter, and taste its burning flame on the Day of Recompense,
يصلونها يوم الدين
Which they will enter on the Day of Judgment,
And they (Al-Fujjar) will not be absent therefrom.
وما هم عنها بغائبين
And they will not be able to keep away therefrom.
And what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?
وما أدراك ما يوم الدين
And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
Again, what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?
ثم ما أدراك ما يوم الدين
Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
(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.
يوم لا تملك نفس لنفس شيئا ۖ والأمر يومئذ لله
(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.