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| 1. * | WHEN THE SKY is split asunder,* |
| 2. * | obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must; |
| 3. * | and when the earth is leveled,* |
| 4. * | and casts forth whatever is in it, and becomes utterly void,* |
| 5. * | obeying its Sustainer, as in truth it must -: |
| 6. * | [then,] O man - thou [that] hast, verily, been toiling towards thy Sustainer in painful toil* - then shalt thou meet Him! |
| 7. * | And as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand,* |
| 8. * | he will in time be called to account with an easy accounting, |
| 9. * | and will [be able to] turn joyfully to those of his own kind.* |
| 10. * | But as for him whose record shall be given to him behind his back;* |
| 11. * | he will in time pray for utter destruction: |
| 12. * | but he will enter the blazing flame. |
| 13. * | Behold, [in his earthly life] he lived joyfully among people of his own kind* - |
| 14. * | for, behold, he never thought that he would have to return [to God]. |
| 15. * | Yea indeed! His Sustainer did see all that was in him! |
| 16. * | BUT NAY! I call to witness the sunset's [fleeting] afterglow, |
| 17. * | and the night, and what it [step by step] unfolds, |
| 18. * | and the moon, as it grows to its fullness:* |
| 19. * | [even thus, O men,] are you bound to move; onward from stage to stage.* |
| 20. * | What, then, is amiss with them that they will not believe [in a life to come]?* - |
| 21. * | and [that], when the Qur'an is read unto them, they do not fall down in prostration?* |
| 22. * | Nay, but they who are bent on denying the truth give the lie [to this divine writ]! |
| 23. * | Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts].* |
| 24. * | Hence, give them the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come] - |
| 25. * | unless it be such [of them] as [repent, and] attain to faith, and do good works: for theirs shall be a reward unending! |