Surah Al-Inshiqaq: English Translation by Zohurul Hoque

Surah Al-Inshiqaq: The Rending Asunder

Revealed at Makkah

With the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Rewarding

84:1

WHEN the sky is rent asunder,

84:2

and it listens to its Rabb, and it is incumbent—

84:3

and when the earth is stretched out,

84:4

and casts forth what is in it, and becomes empty,

84:5

and it listens to its Rabb,— and it is incumbent.

84:6

O you man! surely you have to labor towards your Rabb laboriously, then you will meet Him.

84:7

Then as to him who is given his Book in his right hand,

84:8

then he will soon be accounted for with an easy accounting;

84:9

then he will return to his family joyfully.

84:10

But as to him who is given his Book behind his back,

84:11

then he will soon call for destruction,

84:12

and enter the burning Fire.

84:13

Surely he used to be joyful among his family

84:14

He indeed deemed that he would never return.

84:15

Yea! surely his Rabb is ever Seer of him.

84:16

Then no! I call to witness the evening twilight,—

84:17

and the night and what it drives on,

84:18

and the moon when she grows full,

84:19

you will invariably ascend from stage to stage.

84:20

Then what is with them that they do not believe,

84:21

and when the Qur-an is recited to them they do not perform SAJDAH?

84:22

Rather, those who disbelieve belie.

84:23

But Allah knows best what they conceal.

84:24

Therefore give them the glad tidings of a painful chastisement.

84:25

But as to those who believe and do good,— for them is a reward never to be cut off.