When the heaven was split open
and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do
and when the earth stretches out
and cast what is in it and voided itself
and gave ear to its Lord as it will be justly disposed to do,
O human being! Truly, thou art one who is laboring towards thy Lord laboriously and thou wilt be one who encounters Him.
And as for him who will be given his book in his right hand,
then, he will be made a reckoning, an easy reckoning,
and will turn about to his people as one who is joyous.
But for whoever will be given his book behind his back,
he will call for damnation
and roast in a blaze.
He had been one who is joyous with his people.
Truly, he thought he would never retreat.
Yea! Truly, his Lord had been seeing him.
So no! I swear an oath by the twilight
and by the night and whatever it enveloped
and by the moon when it was full
that you will, truly, ride plane after plane.
Then, what is for them who believe not
when the Quran was recited to them, they prostrate not themselves?‡
Nay! Those who were ungrateful deny,
but God is greater in knowledge of what they amass.
So give them good tidings of a painful punishment.
But those who believed and did as the ones in accord with morality, for them is compensation, that which is unfailing.