082 - Sūrat al-Infitār

In the name of Allah (who is) Rahmān (and) Rahīm.

[For explanation, see Sūrat al-Fātiha: 1]

1

When the heaven is split open, [when it is] rent asunder,

2

And when the stars are dispersed, [when] they expire and begin to fall,

3

And when the seas are burst forth, released one upon the other, forming one mass of water, so that the sweet [water] mixes with the salty;

4

And when the tombs are overturned, [when] their earth [above them] is dug up and its dead are raised (the response to idhā, 'when', and all that is supplemented thereto is [the following]):

5

A soul, every soul, will know, at the time of the [occurrence of the] things mentioned, which is the Day of Resurrection, what it has sent ahead, in the way of deeds, and, what [it has], left behind, of these and did not do.

6

O, disbelieving, man! What has deceived you with regard to your generous Rabb?, so that you have disobeyed Him,

7

Who created you, when you were not, then made you upright, in your created form, with sound limbs, then proportioned you (read fa-'adalak or fa-'addalak), making you symmetrical in shape, with well-proportioned parts, so that no hand or leg is longer than the other,

8

Assembling you in whatever (mā is a relative) form He wishes?

9

No indeed! - a deterrent against letting oneself be misled by the generosity of Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He. Rather you, that is, disbelievers of Mecca, deny Judgement, requital for deeds;

10

Yet lo! there are above you watchers, from among the angels, over your deeds,

11

Noble, in Allah’s sight, writers, of these [deeds],

12

Who know whatever you do, all of it.

13

Indeed the pious, the believers who are sincere in their faith, shall be amid bliss, [in] Paradise,

14

And indeed the profligates, the disbelievers, shall be in Hell-fire, a scorching fire,

15

Entering it, to suffer its heat, on the Day of Judgement, [the Day of] Requital,

16

And they shall not be absent from it, [they shall not] be taken out of it.

17

And what would show you, [what would] inform you, what the Day of Judgement is?

18

Again, what would show you what the Day of Judgement is? - [repeated] to emphasise its enormity.

19

[It is] a day (read yawmu) when no soul will be of any avail, any use, to another soul, and the [absolute] command on that day will be Allah’s: there will be no [power of] command for anyone other than Him thereat, in other words, none has been given the power to mediate thereupon, in contrast to [situations] in this world.