إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنفَطَرَتْ ١
idhā l-samāu infaṭarat
1. When the sky breaks apart
Surah Al-Infitar transliteration
سورة الإنفطار
Here is Surah Al-Infitar (“The Cleaving”) in transliteration: each of its 19 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
وَإِذَا ٱلْكَوَاكِبُ ٱنتَثَرَتْ ٢
wa-idhā l-kawākibu intatharat
2. And when the stars fall, scattering,
وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ ٣
wa-idhā l-biḥāru fujjirat
3. And when the seas are erupted
وَإِذَا ٱلْقُبُورُ بُعْثِرَتْ ٤
wa-idhā l-qubūru buʿ'thirat
4. And when the [contents of] graves are scattered [i.e., exposed],
عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ ٥
ʿalimat nafsun mā qaddamat wa-akharat
5. A soul will [then] know what it has put forth and kept back.
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ ٱلْكَرِيمِ ٦
yāayyuhā l-insānu mā gharraka birabbika l-karīmi
6. O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous,
ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّىٰكَ فَعَدَلَكَ ٧
alladhī khalaqaka fasawwāka faʿadalaka
7. Who created you, proportioned you, and balanced you?
فِىٓ أَىِّ صُورَةٍ مَّا شَآءَ رَكَّبَكَ ٨
fī ayyi ṣūratin mā shāa rakkabaka
8. In whatever form He willed has He assembled you.
كَلَّا بَلْ تُكَذِّبُونَ بِٱلدِّينِ ٩
kallā bal tukadhibūna bil-dīni
9. No! But you deny the Recompense.
وَإِنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ لَحَٰفِظِينَ ١٠
wa-inna ʿalaykum laḥāfiẓīna
10. And indeed, [appointed] over you are keepers,1876
Notes
[1876] Angels who preserve the deeds of men in records.
كِرَامًا كَٰتِبِينَ ١١
kirāman kātibīna
11. Noble and recording;
يَعْلَمُونَ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ ١٢
yaʿlamūna mā tafʿalūna
12. They know whatever you do.
إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍ ١٣
inna l-abrāra lafī naʿīmin
13. Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure,
وَإِنَّ ٱلْفُجَّارَ لَفِى جَحِيمٍ ١٤
wa-inna l-fujāra lafī jaḥīmin
14. And indeed, the wicked will be in Hellfire.
يَصْلَوْنَهَا يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ ١٥
yaṣlawnahā yawma l-dīni
15. They will [enter to] burn therein on the Day of Recompense,
وَمَا هُمْ عَنْهَا بِغَآئِبِينَ ١٦
wamā hum ʿanhā bighāibīna
16. And never therefrom will they be absent.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ ١٧
wamā adrāka mā yawmu l-dīni
17. And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
ثُمَّ مَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ ١٨
thumma mā adrāka mā yawmu l-dīni
18. Then, what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
يَوْمَ لَا تَمْلِكُ نَفْسٌ لِّنَفْسٍ شَيْـًٔا وَٱلْأَمْرُ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلَّهِ ١٩
yawma lā tamliku nafsun linafsin shayan wal-amru yawma-idhin lillahi
19. It is the Day when a soul will not possess for another soul [power to do] a thing; and the command, that Day, is [entirely] with Allāh.
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