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Surah 84

Al-Inshiqaaq

The Splitting Open

25 VersesMeccan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ

English Translation

WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,

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Ayah 2

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

English Translation

obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must;

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Ayah 3

وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ

English Translation

and when the earth is leveled,

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Ayah 4

وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 5

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

English Translation

obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must -:

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Ayah 6

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!

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Ayah 7

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 8

فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًۭا يَسِيرًۭا

English Translation

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

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Ayah 9

وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًۭا

English Translation

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

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Ayah 10

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ وَرَآءَ ظَهْرِهِۦ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 11

فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًۭا

English Translation

he will in time pray for utter destruction:

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Ayah 12

وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا

English Translation

but he will enter the blazing flame.

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Ayah 13

إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا

English Translation

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

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Ayah 14

إِنَّهُۥ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 15

بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّ رَبَّهُۥ كَانَ بِهِۦ بَصِيرًۭا

English Translation

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

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Ayah 16

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 17

وَٱلَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 18

وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا ٱتَّسَقَ

English Translation

and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:

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Ayah 19

لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍۢ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 20

فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 21

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?

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Ayah 22

بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُكَذِّبُونَ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 23

وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 24

فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

English Translation

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

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Ayah 25

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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