الانشقاق

١WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,

٢obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must;

٣and when the earth is leveled,

٤and casts forth whatever is in it, and becomes utterly void,

٥obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must -:

٦[then,] O man - thou [that] hast, verily, been toiling towards thy Sustainer in painful toil - then shalt thou meet Him!

٧And as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand,

٨he will in time be called to account with an easy accounting,

٩and will [be able to] turn joyfully to those of his own kind.

١٠But as for him whose record shall be given to him behind his back;

١١he will in time pray for utter destruction:

١٢but he will enter the blazing flame.

١٣Behold, [in his earthly life] he lived joyfully among people of his own kind

١٤for, behold, he never thought that he would have to return [to God].

١٥Yea indeed! His Sustainer did see all that was in him!

١٦BUT NAY! I call to witness the sunset's [fleeting] afterglow,

١٧and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds,

١٨and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:

١٩[even thus, O men,] are you bound to move; onward from stage to stage.

٢٠What, then, is amiss with them that they will not believe [in a life to come]?

٢١and [that], when the Qur’an is read unto them, they do not fall down in prostration?

٢٢Nay, but they who are bent on denying the truth give the lie [to this divine writ]!

٢٣Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts].

٢٤Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] –

٢٥unless it be such [of them] as [repent, and] attain to faith, and do good works: for theirs shall be a reward unending!.