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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!.