RationalWiki:Annotated Qur'an/The Cleaving Asunder

Annotated Qur'an
Sura 82: The Cleaving Asunder
Word-by-word translation Alternate translations and related tafsirs Alternate translations
Previous sura	Following sura

Qur'an 82:1 When the sky breaks apart.	Qur'an 82:1 Notes The sky is a material capable of crumbling...somehow.

Qur'an 82:2 When the planets are scattered.	Qur'an 82:2 Notes Allah can snap his fingers and create a perturbation that flings our solar system's planets off towards remote galaxies populated by no one.

Qur'an 82:3 When the oceans are exploded.	Qur'an 82:3 Notes As everything is made of air, earth, water and fire...oceans can explode. You just have to bring out the fire within the ocean. Probably only Allah can do this as scientists have yet to crack the whole air, earth, water and fire puzzle.

Qur'an 82:4 When the tombs are strewn around.	Qur'an 82:4 Notes A giant being in the sky could rip up an entire cemetery with one hand and throw around the final resting place of humans. Not sure why but then who are we to question these things?

Qur'an 82:5 Each soul will know what it has advanced, and what it has deferred.	Qur'an 82:5 Notes These numerous terrifying things that only a lunatic in the sky could make happen will quickly inform everyone just how bad things really are.

Qur'an 82:6 O man! What deluded you concerning your Lord, the Most Generous?	Qur'an 82:6 Notes All those years of rational thought and lack of evidence and observations of the absurdity of it all...was the wrong choice. Now it's time to pay the price.

Qur'an 82:7 He Who created you, and formed you, and proportioned you?	Qur'an 82:7 Notes Obviously that lunatic in the sky.

Qur'an 82:8 In whatever shape He willed, He assembled you.	Qur'an 82:8 Notes It's been a nice run.

Qur'an 82:9 But you reject the religion.	Qur'an 82:9 Notes Oops.

Qur'an 82:10 Though over you are watchers.	Qur'an 82:10 Notes The mass surveillance system of God and his angels.

Qur'an 82:11 Honest recorders.	Qur'an 82:11 Notes Filling up terabyte hard drives of info every second.

Qur'an 82:12 They know everything you do.	Qur'an 82:12 Notes Not even I know everything I do.

Qur'an 82:13 The virtuous will be in bliss.	Qur'an 82:13 Notes Here's hoping they found me virtuous.

Qur'an 82:14 While the wicked will be in Hell.	Qur'an 82:14 Notes That sounds unpleasant.

Qur'an 82:15 They will enter it on the Day of Justice.	Qur'an 82:15 Notes Justice of course...is obviously very relative...or in this case...what the scary man in the sky says is justice.

Qur'an 82:16 And they will not be absent from it.	Qur'an 82:16 Notes There's no way to appeal the judgements?

Qur'an 82:17 But what will convey to you what the Day of Justice is?	Qur'an 82:17 Notes Maybe reading another surrah of the Quran that describes the horror of the underground torture factory?

Qur'an 82:18 Then again, what will convey to you what the Day of Justice is?	Qur'an 82:18 Notes I just told you.

Qur'an 82:19 The Day when no soul will avail another soul anything; and the decision on that Day is God’s.	Qur'an 82:19 Notes I'm wondering if I should hedge my bets.