Surat Al-'Inshiqāq - سورة الانشقاق

إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انشَقَّتْ

Muhsin Khan: When the heaven is split asunder,

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

Muhsin Khan: And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so;

وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ

Muhsin Khan: And when the earth is stretched forth,

وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ

Muhsin Khan: And has cast out all that was in it and became empty,

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

Muhsin Khan: And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so;

يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًا فَمُلَاقِيهِ

Muhsin Khan: O man! Verily, you are returning towards your Lord with your deeds and actions (good or bad), a sure returning, so you will meet (i.e. the results of your deeds which you did).

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ

Muhsin Khan: Then, as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand,

فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا

Muhsin Khan: He surely will receive an easy reckoning,

وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا

Muhsin Khan: And will return to his family in joy!

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِهِ

Muhsin Khan: But whosoever is given his Record behind his back,

فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُو ثُبُورًا

Muhsin Khan: He will invoke (his) destruction,

وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا

Muhsin Khan: And shall enter a blazing Fire, and made to taste its burning.

إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا

Muhsin Khan: Verily, he was among his people in joy!

إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ

Muhsin Khan: Verily, he thought that he would never come back (to Us)!

بَلَىٰ إِنَّ رَبَّهُ كَانَ بِهِ بَصِيرًا

Muhsin Khan: Yes! Verily, his Lord has been ever beholding him!

فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالشَّفَقِ

Muhsin Khan: So I swear by the afterglow of sunset;

وَاللَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ

Muhsin Khan: And by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness;

وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا اتَّسَقَ

Muhsin Khan: And by the moon when it is at the full,

لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ

Muhsin Khan: You shall certainly travel from stage to stage (in this life and in the Hereafter).

فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

Muhsin Khan: What is the matter with them, that they believe not?

وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقُرْآنُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ ۩

Muhsin Khan: And when the Quran is recited to them, they fall not prostrate,

بَلِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُكَذِّبُونَ

Muhsin Khan: Nay, (on the contrary), those who disbelieve, belie (Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and whatever he brought, i.e. this Quran and Islamic Monotheism, etc.).

وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

Muhsin Khan: And Allah knows best what they gather (of good and bad deeds),

فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

Muhsin Khan: So announce to them a painful torment.

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ

Muhsin Khan: Save those who believe and do righteous good deeds, for them is a reward that will never come to an end (i.e. Paradise).