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Al-Inshiqaq · The Sundering

25 ayahs Makki Page 589 Juz 30
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
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Madd (maddah sign)Ghunnah (doubled noon / meem)Qalqalah
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إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنشَقَّتْ ﴿١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhen the heaven is split asunder

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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ ﴿٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd attentive to her Lord in fear,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ ﴿٣﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd when the earth is spread out

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وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ ﴿٤﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd hath cast out all that was in her, and is empty

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وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ ﴿٥﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd attentive to her Lord in fear!

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يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًا فَمُلَـٰقِيهِ ﴿٦﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThou, verily, O man, art working toward thy Lord a work which thou wilt meet (in His presence).

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فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ بِيَمِينِهِۦ ﴿٧﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThen whoso is given his account in his right hand

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فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا ﴿٨﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe truly will receive an easy reckoning

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وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا ﴿٩﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd will return unto his folk in joy.

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وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِىَ كِتَـٰبَهُۥ وَرَآءَ ظَهْرِهِۦ ﴿١٠﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallBut whoso is given his account behind his back,

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فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًا ﴿١١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe surely will invoke destruction

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وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا ﴿١٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd be thrown to scorching fire.

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إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ فِىٓ أَهْلِهِۦ مَسْرُورًا ﴿١٣﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe verily lived joyous with his folk,

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إِنَّهُۥ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ ﴿١٤﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallHe verily deemed that he would never return (unto Allah).

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بَلَىٰٓ إِنَّ رَبَّهُۥ كَانَ بِهِۦ بَصِيرًا ﴿١٥﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallNay, but lo! his Lord is ever looking on him!

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فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلشَّفَقِ ﴿١٦﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallOh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset,

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وَٱلَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ ﴿١٧﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd by the night and all that it enshroudeth,

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وَٱلْقَمَرِ إِذَا ٱتَّسَقَ ﴿١٨﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd by the moon when she is at the full,

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لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ ﴿١٩﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallThat ye shall journey on from plane to plane.

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فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ ﴿٢٠﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallWhat aileth them, then, that they believe not

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وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ ۩ ﴿٢١﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd, when the Qur'an is recited unto them, worship not (Allah)?

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بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ يُكَذِّبُونَ ﴿٢٢﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallNay, but those who disbelieve will deny;

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وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ ﴿٢٣﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallAnd Allah knoweth best what they are hiding.

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فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ ﴿٢٤﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSo give them tidings of a painful doom,

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إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍۭ ﴿٢٥﴾

Mohammed Marmaduke William PickthallSave those who believe and do good works, for theirs is a reward unfailing.

Mishary Rashid AlafasyMurattal · Al-Inshiqaq
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Quran text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani), tanzil.net – CC BY 3.0, unchanged. Translation: The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall – Public domain (published 1930).