| | Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar rendition of Surah The Sundering, Splitting Open(al-Inshiqaq)
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| 84:1 | | When the heaven was split open |
| 84:2 | | and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do |
| 84:3 | | and when the earth stretches out |
| 84:4 | | and cast what is in it and voided itself |
| 84:5 | | and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do, |
| 84:6 | | O human being! Truly, thou art one who is laboring towards thy Lord laboriously and thou wilt be one who encounters Him. |
| 84:7 | | And as for him who will be given his book in his right hand, |
| 84:8 | | then, he will be made a reckoning, an easy reckoning, |
| 84:9 | | and will turn about to his people as one who is joyous. |
| 84:10 | | But for whoever will be given his book behind his back, |
| 84:11 | | he will call for damnation |
| 84:12 | | and roast in a blaze. |
| 84:13 | | He had been one who is joyous with his people. |
| 84:14 | | Truly, he thought he would never retreat. |
| 84:15 | | Yea! Truly, his Lord had been seeing him. |
| 84:16 | | So no! I swear an oath by the twilight |
| 84:17 | | and by the night and whatever it enveloped |
| 84:18 | | and by the moon when it was full |
| 84:19 | | that you will, truly, ride plane after plane. |
| 84:20 | | Then, what is for them who believe not |
| 84:21 | | when the Quran was recited to them, they prostrate not themselves?‡ |
| 84:22 | | Nay! Those who were ungrateful deny, |
| 84:23 | | but God is greater in knowledge of what they amass. |
| 84:24 | | So give them good tidings of a painful punishment. |
| 84:25 | | But those who believed and did as the ones in accord with morality, for them is compensation, that which is unfailing. |
