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English - Chapter 84 - Al-Inshiqaq

Translation by John Medows Rodwell — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:1

WHEN the Heaven shall have SPLIT ASUNDER

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:2

And duteously obeyed its Lord

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:3

And when Earth shall have been stretched out as a plain

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:4

And shall have cast forth what was in her and become empty

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:5

And duteously obeyed its Lord

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:6

Then verily, O man, who desirest to reach thy Lord, shalt thou meet him

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:7

And he into whose right hand his Book shall be given

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:8

Shall be reckoned with in an easy reckoning

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:9

And shall turn, rejoicing, to his kindred

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:10

But he whose Book shall be given him behind his back

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:11

Shall invoke destruction

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:12

But in the fire shall he burn

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:13

For that he lived joyously among his kindred

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:14

Without a thought that he should return to God

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:15

Yea, but his Lord beheld him

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:16

It needs not therefore that I swear by the sunset redness

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:17

And by the night and its gatherings

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:18

And by the moon when at her full

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:19

That from state to state shall ye be surely carried onward

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:20

What then hath come to them that they believe not

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:21

And that when the Koran is recited to them they adore not

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:22

Yea, the unbelievers treat it as a lie

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:23

But God knoweth their secret hatreds

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:24

Let their only tidings be those of painful punishment

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Inshiqaq 84:25

Save to those who believe and do the things that be right. An unfailing recompense shall be theirs