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English - Chapter 84 - Al-Inshiqaq

Translation by Dr Laleh Bakhtiar — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:1

When the heaven was split open

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:2

and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:3

and when the earth stretches out

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:4

and cast what is in it and voided itself

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:5

and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:6

O human being! Truly, thou art one who is laboring towards thy Lord laboriously and thou wilt be one who encounters Him

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:7

And as for him who will be given his book in his right hand

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:8

then, he will be made a reckoning, an easy reckoning

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:9

and will turn about to his people as one who is joyous

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:10

But for whoever will be given his book behind his back

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:11

he will call for damnation

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:12

and roast in a blaze

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:13

He had been one who is joyous with his people

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:14

Truly, he thought he would never retreat

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:15

Yea! Truly, his Lord had been seeing him

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:16

So no! I swear an oath by the twilight

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:17

and by the night and whatever it enveloped

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:18

and by the moon when it was full

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:19

that you will, truly, ride plane after plane

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:20

Then, what is for them who believe not

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:21

when the Quran was recited to them, they prostrate not themselves?‡

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:22

Nay! Those who were ungrateful deny

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:23

but God is greater in knowledge of what they amass

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:24

So give them good tidings of a painful punishment

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:25

But those who believed and did as the ones in accord with morality, for them is compensation, that which is unfailing