بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ
English Translation
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,
Surah 84
The Splitting Open
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Recitation by Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Arabic • English
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ
English Translation
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,
وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
English Translation
obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must;
وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ
English Translation
and when the earth is leveled,
وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ
English Translation
and casts forth whatever is in it, and becomes utterly void,
وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
English Translation
obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must -:
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًۭا فَمُلَٰقِيهِ
English Translation
[then,] O man - thou [that] hast, verily, been toiling towards thy Sustainer in painful toil - then shalt thou meet Him!
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ
English Translation
And as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand,
فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًۭا يَسِيرًۭا
English Translation
he will in time be called to account with an easy accounting,
وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًۭا
English Translation
and will [be able to] turn joyfully to those of his own kind.
وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ وَرَآءَ ظَهْرِهِۦ
English Translation
But as for him whose record shall be given to him behind his back;
فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًۭا
English Translation
he will in time pray for utter destruction:
وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا
English Translation
but he will enter the blazing flame.
إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا
English Translation
Behold, [in his earthly life] he lived joyfully among people of his own kind
إِنَّهُۥ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ
English Translation
for, behold, he never thought that he would have to return [to God].
بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّ رَبَّهُۥ كَانَ بِهِۦ بَصِيرًۭا
English Translation
Yea indeed! His Sustainer did see all that was in him!
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ
English Translation
BUT NAY! I call to witness the sunset's [fleeting] afterglow,
وَٱلَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ
English Translation
and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds,
وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا ٱتَّسَقَ
English Translation
and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:
لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍۢ
English Translation
[even thus, O men,] are you bound to move; onward from stage to stage.
فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
English Translation
What, then, is amiss with them that they will not believe [in a life to come]?
وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ ۩
English Translation
and [that], when the Qur’an is read unto them, they do not fall down in prostration?
بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُكَذِّبُونَ
English Translation
Nay, but they who are bent on denying the truth give the lie [to this divine writ]!
وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ
English Translation
Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts].
فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
English Translation
Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] –
إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍۭ
English Translation
unless it be such [of them] as [repent, and] attain to faith, and do good works: for theirs shall be a reward unending!.
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