Chapter 84, 25 verses
When the sky has split [open]
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إذا السماء انشقت
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. When the heaven is split asunder
And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so]
وأذنت لربها وحقت
And attentive to her Lord in fear,
And when the earth has been extended
وإذا الأرض مدت
And when the earth is spread out
And has cast out that within it and relinquished [it]
وألقت ما فيها وتخلت
And hath cast out all that was in her, and is empty
And has responded to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] -
وأذنت لربها وحقت
And attentive to her Lord in fear!
O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it.
يا أيها الإنسان إنك كادح إلى ربك كدحا فملاقيه
Thou, verily, O man, art working toward thy Lord a work which thou wilt meet (in His presence).
Then as for he who is given his record in his right hand,
فأما من أوتي كتابه بيمينه
Then whoso is given his account in his right hand
He will be judged with an easy account
فسوف يحاسب حسابا يسيرا
He truly will receive an easy reckoning
And return to his people in happiness.
وينقلب إلى أهله مسرورا
And will return unto his folk in joy.
But as for he who is given his record behind his back,
وأما من أوتي كتابه وراء ظهره
But whoso is given his account behind his back,
He will cry out for destruction
فسوف يدعو ثبورا
He surely will invoke destruction
And [enter to] burn in a Blaze.
ويصلى سعيرا
And be thrown to scorching fire.
Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness;
إنه كان في أهله مسرورا
He verily lived joyous with his folk,
Indeed, he had thought he would never return [to Allah].
إنه ظن أن لن يحور
He verily deemed that he would never return (unto Allah).
But yes! Indeed, his Lord was ever of him, Seeing.
بلى إن ربه كان به بصيرا
Nay, but lo! his Lord is ever looking on him!
So I swear by the twilight glow
فلا أقسم بالشفق
Oh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset,
And [by] the night and what it envelops
والليل وما وسق
And by the night and all that it enshroudeth,
And [by] the moon when it becomes full
والقمر إذا اتسق
And by the moon when she is at the full,
[That] you will surely experience state after state.
لتركبن طبقا عن طبق
That ye shall journey on from plane to plane.
So what is [the matter] with them [that] they do not believe,
فما لهم لا يؤمنون
What aileth them, then, that they believe not
And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they do not prostrate [to Allah]?
وإذا قرئ عليهم القرآن لا يسجدون ۩
And, when the Qur'an is recited unto them, worship not (Allah) ?
But those who have disbelieved deny,
بل الذين كفروا يكذبون
Nay, but those who disbelieve will deny;
And Allah is most knowing of what they keep within themselves.
والله أعلم بما يوعون
And Allah knoweth best what they are hiding.
So give them tidings of a painful punishment,
فبشرهم بعذاب أليم
So give them tidings of a painful doom,
Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds. For them is a reward uninterrupted.
إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لهم أجر غير ممنون
Save those who believe and do good works, for theirs is a reward unfailing.