Surah Al-'Infiţār (The Cleaving) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. إذا السماء انفطرت

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   When the sky is rent apart,

   ʾidhā s-samāʾu nfaṭarat

2. وإذا الكواكب انتثرت

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   when the stars are scattered,

   wa-ʾidhā l-kawākibu ntatharat

3. وإذا البحار فجرت

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   when the seas are merged,

   wa-ʾidhā l-biḥāru fujjirat

4. وإذا القبور بعثرت

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   when the graves are overturned,

   wa-ʾidhā l-qubūru buʿthirat

5. علمت نفس ما قدمت وأخرت

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   then a soul shall know what it has sent ahead and left behind.

   ʿalimat nafsun mā qaddamat wa-ʾakhkharat

6. يا أيها الإنسان ما غرك بربك الكريم

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   O man! What has deceived you about your generous Lord,

   yā-ʾayyuhā l-ʾinsānu mā gharraka bi-rabbika l-karīmi

7. الذي خلقك فسواك فعدلك

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   who created you and proportioned you, and gave you an upright nature,

   alladhī khalaqaka fa-sawwāka fa-ʿadalaka

8. في أي صورة ما شاء ركبك

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   and composed you in any form that He wished?

   fī ʾayyi ṣūratin mā shāʾa rakkabaka

9. كلا بل تكذبون بالدين

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   No! Indeed, you deny the Retribution.

   kallā bal tukadhdhibūna bi-d-dīni

10. وإن عليكم لحافظين

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    Indeed, there are over you watchers,

    wa-ʾinna ʿalaykum la-ḥāfiẓīna

11. كراما كاتبين

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    noble writers,

    kirāman kātibīna

12. يعلمون ما تفعلون

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    who know whatever you do.

    yaʿlamūna mā tafʿalūna

13. إن الأبرار لفي نعيم

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    Indeed the pious shall be amid bliss,

    ʾinna l-ʾabrāra la-fī naʿīmin

14. وإن الفجار لفي جحيم

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    and indeed the vicious shall be in hell,

    wa-ʾinna l-fujjāra la-fī jaḥīmin

15. يصلونها يوم الدين

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    entering it on the Day of Retribution,

    yaṣlawnahā yawma d-dīni

16. وما هم عنها بغائبين

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    and they shall not be absent from it.

    wa-mā hum ʿanhā bi-ghāʾibīna

17. وما أدراك ما يوم الدين

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    And what will show you what is the Day of Retribution?

    wa-mā ʾadrāka mā yawmu d-dīni

18. ثم ما أدراك ما يوم الدين

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    Again, what will show you what is the Day of Retribution?

    thumma mā ʾadrāka mā yawmu d-dīni

19. يوم لا تملك نفس لنفس شيئا والأمر يومئذ لله

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    It is a day when no soul will be of any avail to another soul and all command that day will belong to Allah.

    yawma lā tamliku nafsun li-nafsin shayʾan wa-l-ʾamru yawmaʾidhin li-llāhi