سُورَةُ الانشِقَاقِ
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,
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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must;
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وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ
and when the earth is leveled,
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وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ
and casts forth whatever is in it, and becomes utterly void,
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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must -:
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يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًۭا فَمُلَٰقِيهِ
[then,] O man - thou [that] hast, verily, been toiling towards thy Sustainer in painful toil - then shalt thou meet Him!
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فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ
And as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand,
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فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًۭا يَسِيرًۭا
he will in time be called to account with an easy accounting,
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وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًۭا
and will [be able to] turn joyfully to those of his own kind.
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وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَٰبَهُۥ وَرَآءَ ظَهْرِهِۦ
But as for him whose record shall be given to him behind his back;
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فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًۭا
he will in time pray for utter destruction:
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وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا
but he will enter the blazing flame.
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إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا
Behold, [in his earthly life] he lived joyfully among people of his own kind
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إِنَّهُۥ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ
for, behold, he never thought that he would have to return [to God].
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بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّ رَبَّهُۥ كَانَ بِهِۦ بَصِيرًۭا
Yea indeed! His Sustainer did see all that was in him!
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فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ
BUT NAY! I call to witness the sunset's [fleeting] afterglow,
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وَٱلَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ
and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds,
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وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا ٱتَّسَقَ
and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:
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لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍۢ
[even thus, O men,] are you bound to move; onward from stage to stage.
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فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
What, then, is amiss with them that they will not believe [in a life to come]?
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وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ ۩
and [that], when the Qur’an is read unto them, they do not fall down in prostration?
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بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُكَذِّبُونَ
Nay, but they who are bent on denying the truth give the lie [to this divine writ]!
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وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ
Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts].
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فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] –
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إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍۭ
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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