Surah 84
Ripped Apart
Al-Inshiqaq 🌠
This text describes the earth emptying out its contents at the end of time, explaining that our lives are a steady journey toward a final meeting with our Creator. Its title comes from the opening verse, which describes the sky being ripped apart in obedience to its Lord.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
1When the sky is ripped apart,
2Obeying its Lord as it rightly must,
3When the earth is levelled out,
4Casts out its contents, and becomes empty,
5Obeying its Lord as it rightly must,
6You humans, toiling laboriously towards your Lord, will meet Him:
7Whoever is given his record in his right hand
8Will have an easy reckoning
9And return to his people well pleased,
10But whoever is given his record from behind his back
11Will cry out for destruction —
12He will burn in the blazing Fire.
13He used to live among his people well pleased.
14He thought he would never return [to his Lord] —
15Indeed he will! His Lord was watching him.
16I swear by the glow of sunset,
17By the night and what it covers,
18By the full moon,
19You will progress from stage to stage.
20So why do they not believe?
21Why, when the Qur’an is read to them, do they not prostrate themselves [to God]?
22No! The disbelievers reject the Qur’an —
23God knows best what they keep hidden inside —
24So give them news of a painful torment.
25But those who believe and do good deeds will have a never-ending reward.