In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
When the heaven bursts asunder, | |
And obeys its Lord and it must. | |
And when the earth is stretched, | |
And casts forth what is in it and becomes empty, | |
And obeys its Lord and it must. | |
O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him. | |
Then as to him who is given his book in his right hand, | |
He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning, | |
And he shall go back to his people joyful. | |
And as to him who is given his book behind his back, | |
He shall call for perdition, | |
And enter into burning fire. | |
Surely he was (erstwhile) joyful among his followers. | |
Surely he thought that he would never return. | |
Yea! surely his Lord does ever see him. | |
But nay! I swear by the sunset redness, | |
And the night and that which it drives on, | |
And the moon when it grows full, | |
That you shall most certainly enter one state after another. | |
But what is the matter with them that they do not believe, | |
And when the Quran is recited to them they do not make obeisance? | |
Nay! those who disbelieve give the lie to the truth. | |
And Allah knows best what they hide, | |
So announce to them a painful punishment~ | |
