Surah “The Cleaving, The Cleaving Asunder, Bursting Apart”

as rendered by Fode Drame — 19 verses

When the sky rents asunder.
And then the stars scatter far and wide.
And when the oceans are caused to burst their banks.
And when the graves are shaken to dust.
Then each soul will know for certain that which it had sent before and sent after.
O you the human being! What has kept you in delusion regarding your Lord, The All-gracious?
He who created you, then made you proportionate then gave you an upright posture.
In any shape which He pleases, He molds you.
Not at all! Nay you do belie the day of the recompense.
And truly there are indeed guardians over you;
scribes, most gracious.
They know for certain all that you do.
Truly the pious will indeed be in bliss.
And truly the transgressors will indeed be in hellfire.
They will burn therein on the day of recompense.
And they are not going to be absent from there.
And what tells you about what is the day of recompense?
Again what do you know what is the day of the recompense?
That will be the day when a soul lays claim to nothing for the benefit of any soul and the commandment that day is only for Allah.