بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنفَطَرَتْ ﴿1﴾
Ahmed Ali
WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,
Ahmed Raza Khan
When the heaven splits open.
Arberry
When heaven is split open,
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وَإِذَا ٱلْكَوَاكِبُ ٱنتَثَرَتْ ﴿2﴾
Ahmed Ali
And the stars dispersed,
Ahmed Raza Khan
And when the stars fall down.
Arberry
when the stars are scattered,
وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ ﴿3﴾
Ahmed Ali
When the oceans begin to flow,
Ahmed Raza Khan
And when the oceans are swept away.
Arberry
when the seas swarm over,
وَإِذَا ٱلْقُبُورُ بُعْثِرَتْ ﴿4﴾
Ahmed Ali
When the graves are overturned,
Ahmed Raza Khan
And when the graves are overturned.
Arberry
when the tombs are overthrown,
عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌۭ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ ﴿5﴾
Ahmed Ali
Each soul will know what it had sent ahead and what it had left behind.
Ahmed Raza Khan
Every soul will come to know what it has sent ahead and what it left behind.
Arberry
then a soul shall know its works, the former and the latter.
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ ٱلْكَرِيمِ ﴿6﴾
Ahmed Ali
O man, what seduced you from your munificent Lord
Ahmed Raza Khan
O man! What has deceived you away from your Lord, the Most Beneficent?
Arberry
O Man! What deceived thee as to thy generous Lord
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّىٰكَ فَعَدَلَكَ ﴿7﴾
Ahmed Ali
Who created you then formed your symmetry, then gave you right proportion,
Ahmed Raza Khan
The One Who created you, then moulded you, then made you proper?
Arberry
who created thee and shaped thee and wrought thee in symmetry
فِىٓ أَىِّ صُورَةٍۢ مَّا شَآءَ رَكَّبَكَ ﴿8﴾
Ahmed Ali
Shaping you into any form He pleased?
Ahmed Raza Khan
He moulded you into whatever shape He willed.
Arberry
and composed thee after what form He would?
كَلَّا بَلْ تُكَذِّبُونَ بِٱلدِّينِ ﴿9﴾
Ahmed Ali
Even then you deny the Judgement.
Ahmed Raza Khan
Not at all – but rather you deny the establishment of Justice.
Arberry
No indeed; but you cry lies to the Doom;
وَإِنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ لَحَٰفِظِينَ ﴿10﴾
Ahmed Ali
Surely there are guardians over you,
Ahmed Raza Khan
And indeed there are some guardians over you.
Arberry
yet there are over you watchers
كِرَامًۭا كَٰتِبِينَ ﴿11﴾
Ahmed Ali
Illustrious scribes
Ahmed Raza Khan
The honourable recorders.
Arberry
noble, writers
يَعْلَمُونَ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ ﴿12﴾
Ahmed Ali
Who know what you do.
Ahmed Raza Khan
Knowing all what you may do.
Arberry
who know whatever you do.
إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍۢ ﴿13﴾
Ahmed Ali
The pious will surely be in heaven,
Ahmed Raza Khan
Indeed the virtuous are in serenity.
Arberry
Surely the pious shall be in bliss,
وَإِنَّ ٱلْفُجَّارَ لَفِى جَحِيمٍۢ ﴿14﴾
Ahmed Ali
The wicked certainly in Hell:
Ahmed Raza Khan
And indeed the sinners are in hell.
Arberry
and the libertines shall be in a fiery furnace
يَصْلَوْنَهَا يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿15﴾
Ahmed Ali
They will burn in it on the Day of Judgement,
Ahmed Raza Khan
They will enter it on the Day of Justice.
Arberry
roasting therein on the Day of Doom,
وَمَا هُمْ عَنْهَا بِغَآئِبِينَ ﴿16﴾
Ahmed Ali
And will not be removed from it.
Ahmed Raza Khan
And will not be able to hide from it.
Arberry
nor shall they ever be absent from it.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿17﴾
Ahmed Ali
How can you comprehend what the Day of Judgement is?
Ahmed Raza Khan
And what do you know – of what sort is the Day of Justice!
Arberry
And what shall teach thee what is the Day of Doom?
ثُمَّ مَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿18﴾
Ahmed Ali
How then can you comprehend what the Day of Judgement is?
Ahmed Raza Khan
Again, what do you know – of what sort is the Day of Justice!
Arberry
Again, what shall teach thee what is the Day of Doom?
يَوْمَ لَا تَمْلِكُ نَفْسٌۭ لِّنَفْسٍۢ شَيْـًۭٔا ۖ وَٱلْأَمْرُ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلَّهِ ﴿19﴾
Ahmed Ali
It is the day when no soul will have power to do the least for a soul, and God's alone will be done.
Ahmed Raza Khan
The day on which no soul will have the authority over any other soul; and on that day, the entire command belongs to Allah.
Arberry
A day when no soul shall possess aught to succour another soul; that day the Command shall belong unto God.