The Sundering, Splitting Open — John Medows Rodwell Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Bursting Asunder

إِذَا السَّمَاءُ انشَقَّتْ

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WHEN the Heaven shall have SPLIT ASUNDE

Itha alssamao inshaqqat

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

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And duteously obeyed its Lord

Waathinat lirabbiha wahuqqat

وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ

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And when Earth shall have been stretched out as a plain

Wa-itha al-ardu muddat

وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ

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And shall have cast forth what was in her and become empty

Waalqat ma feeha watakhallat

وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ

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And duteously obeyed its Lord

Waathinat lirabbiha wahuqqat

يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَدْحًا فَمُلَاقِيهِ

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Then verily, O man, who desirest to reach thy Lord, shalt thou meet him

Ya ayyuha al-insanu innaka kadihun ila rabbika kadhan famulaqeehi

فَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِيَمِينِهِ

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And he into whose right hand his Book shall be given

Faama man ootiya kitabahu biyameenihi

فَسَوْفَ يُحَاسَبُ حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا

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Shall be reckoned with in an easy reckoning

Fasawfa yuhasabu hisaban yaseeran

وَيَنقَلِبُ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا

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And shall turn, rejoicing, to his kindred

Wayanqalibu ila ahlihi masrooran

وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِهِ

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But he whose Book shall be given him behind his bac

Waamma man ootiya kitabahu waraa thahrihi

فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُو ثُبُورًا

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Shall invoke destruction

Fasawfa yadAAoo thubooran

وَيَصْلَىٰ سَعِيرًا

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But in the fire shall he burn

Wayasla saAAeeran

إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي أَهْلِهِ مَسْرُورًا

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For that he lived joyously among his kindred

Innahu kana fee ahlihi masrooran

إِنَّهُ ظَنَّ أَن لَّن يَحُورَ

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Without a thought that he should return to God

Innahu thanna an lan yahoora

بَلَىٰ إِنَّ رَبَّهُ كَانَ بِهِ بَصِيرًا

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Yea, but his Lord beheld him

Bala inna rabbahu kana bihi baseeran

فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالشَّفَقِ

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It needs not therefore that I swear by the sunset redness

Fala oqsimu bialshshafaqi

وَاللَّيْلِ وَمَا وَسَقَ

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And by the night and its gatherings

Waallayli wama wasaqa

وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا اتَّسَقَ

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And by the moon when at her full

Waalqamari itha ittasaqa

لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ

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That from state to state shall ye be surely carried onward

Latarkabunna tabaqan AAan tabaqin

فَمَا لَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

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What then hath come to them that they believe not

Fama lahum la yu/minoona

وَإِذَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقُرْآنُ لَا يَسْجُدُونَ

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And that when the Koran is recited to them they adore not

Wa-itha quri-a AAalayhimu alqur-anu la yasjudoona

بَلِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُكَذِّبُونَ

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Yea, the unbelievers treat it as a lie

Bali allatheena kafaroo yukaththiboona

وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يُوعُونَ

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But God knoweth their secret hatreds

WaAllahu aAAlamu bima yooAAoona

فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

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Let their only tidings be those of painful punishment

Fabashshirhum biAAathabin aleemin

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ

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Save to those who believe and do the things that be right. An unfailing recompense shall be theirs

Illa allatheena amanoo waAAamiloo alssalihati lahum ajrun ghayru mamnoonin

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