الإنشقاق
The Sundering
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
idhā l-samāu inshaqqat
When the sky has split [open]
wa-adhinat lirabbihā waḥuqqat
And has listened [i.e., responded] to its Lord and was obligated [to do so]
wa-idhā l-arḍu muddat
And when the earth has been extended
wa-alqat mā fīhā watakhallat
And has cast out that within it and relinquished [it].
wa-adhinat lirabbihā waḥuqqat
And has listened [i.e., responded] to its Lord and was obligated [to do so] -
yāayyuhā l-insānu innaka kādiḥun ilā rabbika kadḥan famulāqīhi
O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it.
fa-ammā man ūtiya kitābahu biyamīnihi
Then as for he who is given his record in his right hand,
fasawfa yuḥāsabu ḥisāban yasīran
He will be judged with an easy account
wayanqalibu ilā ahlihi masrūran
And return to his people in happiness.
wa-ammā man ūtiya kitābahu warāa ẓahrihi
But as for he who is given his record behind his back,
fasawfa yadʿū thubūran
He will cry out for destruction
wayaṣlā saʿīran
And [enter to] burn in a Blaze.
innahu kāna fī ahlihi masrūran
Indeed, he had [once] been among his people in happiness;
innahu ẓanna an lan yaḥūra
Indeed, he had thought he would never return [to Allāh].
balā inna rabbahu kāna bihi baṣīran
But yes! Indeed, his Lord was ever, of him, Seeing.
falā uq'simu bil-shafaqi
So I swear by the twilight glow
wa-al-layli wamā wasaqa
And [by] the night and what it envelops
wal-qamari idhā ittasaqa
And [by] the moon when it becomes full
latarkabunna ṭabaqan ʿan ṭabaqin
[That] you will surely embark upon [i.e., experience] state after state.
famā lahum lā yu'minūna
So what is [the matter] with them [that] they do not believe,
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