84.The Splitting Open

  1. When the sky is ripped apart
  2. obeying its Lord as it rightly must
  3. when the earth is levelled out
  4. casts out its contents, and becomes empty
  5. obeying its Lord as it rightly must
  6. you humans, toiling laboriously towards your Lord, will meet Him
  7. whoever is given his record in his right hand
  8. will have an easy reckoning
  9. and return to his people well pleased
  10. but whoever is given his record from behind his back
  11. will cry out for destruction––
  12. he will burn in the blazing Fire
  13. He used to live among his people well pleased
  14. He thought he would never return [to his Lord]––
  15. indeed he will! His Lord was watching him
  16. I swear by the glow of sunset
  17. by the night and what it covers
  18. by the full moon
  19. you will progress from stage to stage
  20. So why do they not believe
  21. Why, when the Quran is read to them, do they not prostrate themselves [to God]
  22. No! The disbelievers reject the Quran––
  23. God knows best what they keep hidden inside––
  24. so give them news of a painful torment
  25. But those who believe and do good deeds will have a never-ending reward