Soorah Al-Infitaar (The Cleaving)


In the Name of Allaah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
1.  When the heaven is cleft asunder.
2.  And when the stars have fallen and scattered;
3.  And when the seas are burst forth (got dried up);
4.  And when the graves are turned upside down (and they bring out their contents)
5.  (Then) a person will know what he has sent forward and (what he has) left behind (of good or bad deeds).
6.  O man! What has made you careless concerning your Lord, the Most Generous?
7.  Who created you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion;
8.  In whatever form He willed, He put you together.
9.  Nay! But you deny Ad-Deen (the Day of Recompense).
10.  But verily, over you (are appointed angels in charge of mankind) to watch you, [1]
11.  Kiraaman (honourable) Kaatibeen - writing down (your deeds), [2]
12.  They know all that you do.
13.  Verily, the Abraar (pious and righteous) will be in delight (Paradise);
14.  And verily, the Fujjaar (the wicked, disbelievers, sinners and evil-doers) will be in the blazing Fire (Hell),
15.  In which they will enter, and taste its burning flame on the Day of Recompense,
16.  And they (Al-Fujjaar) will not be absent therefrom (i.e. will not go out from the Hell).
17.  And what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?
18.  Again, what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?
19.  (It will be) the Day when no person shall have power (to do) anything for another, and the Decision, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allaah.
 

Footnotes
[1] (82):10 Narrated Aboo Hurairah (radi-Allaahu 'anhu):
The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said: "Angels come (to you) in succession by night and day, and all of them get together at the time of the Fajr and 'Asr prayers. Then those who have stayed with you overnight, ascend unto Allaah, Who asks them (and He knows the answer better than they): "How have you left My slaves?" They reply, "We left them while they were praying and we came to them while they were praying." The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) added: "If anyone of you says Ameen (during the prayer at the end of the recitation of Sooratul-Faatihah), and the angels in Heaven say the same, and the two sayings coincide, all his past sins will be forgiven." [Saheeh Bukhaaree, Vol. 4, Hadeeth No. 446]
 
[2] (82):11 Whoever intended to do a good deed or a bad deed:

Narrated Ibn 'Abbaas (radi-Allaahu 'anhu):
The Prophet (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) narrating about his Lord said, "Allaah ordered (the appointed angels over you) that the good and bad deeds be written, and then He showed (the way) how (to write). If somebody intends to do a good deed and he does not do it, then Allaah will write for him a full good deed (in his account with Him); and if he intends to do a good deed and actually does it, then Allaah will write for him (in his account) with Him (its reward equal) from ten to seven hundred times, to many more times; and if somebody intended to do a bad deed and he does not do it (a bad deed) and actually does it, then Allaah will write one bad deed (in his account)." [Saheeh Bukhaaree, Vol. 8, Hadeeth No. 498]
 

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