{ "number": 82, "slug": "infitar", "name": "Al-Infitar", "arabicName": "الانفطار", "meaning": "The Cleaving", "period": "Makkan", "juz": 30, "tagline": "A SKY OPENED & A LIFE REMEMBERED", "overview": "The sky breaks open, familiar boundaries dissolve, and each soul meets the truth of its life. A searching question about the generous Creator leads to the recording of deeds and the day when final authority belongs to Allah.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_82.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=82&verse=1" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=82&verse=7" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=82&verse=13" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=82&verse=18" }, { "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/info" }, { "title": "The generous Creator · Ma’arif al-Qur’an", "url": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/6/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "Three surahs of resurrection · Tirmidhi 3333", "url": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3333" }, { "title": "622 CE · Hijrah period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "إِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ ٱنفَطَرَتْ", "translation": "When the sky breaks apart" }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "وَإِذَا ٱلْكَوَاكِبُ ٱنتَثَرَتْ", "translation": "And when the stars fall, scattering," }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ فُجِّرَتْ", "translation": "And when the seas are erupted" }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "وَإِذَا ٱلْقُبُورُ بُعْثِرَتْ", "translation": "And when the [contents of] graves are scattered," }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌۭ مَّا قَدَّمَتْ وَأَخَّرَتْ", "translation": "A soul will [then] know what it has put forth and kept back." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ ٱلْكَرِيمِ", "translation": "O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous," }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكَ فَسَوَّىٰكَ فَعَدَلَكَ", "translation": "Who created you, proportioned you, and balanced you?" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "فِىٓ أَىِّ صُورَةٍۢ مَّا شَآءَ رَكَّبَكَ", "translation": "In whatever form He willed has He assembled you." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "كَلَّا بَلْ تُكَذِّبُونَ بِٱلدِّينِ", "translation": "No! But you deny the Recompense." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "وَإِنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ لَحَٰفِظِينَ", "translation": "And indeed, [appointed] over you are keepers," }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "كِرَامًۭا كَٰتِبِينَ", "translation": "Noble and recording;" }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "يَعْلَمُونَ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ", "translation": "They know whatever you do." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure," }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "وَإِنَّ ٱلْفُجَّارَ لَفِى جَحِيمٍۢ", "translation": "And indeed, the wicked will be in Hellfire." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "يَصْلَوْنَهَا يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ", "translation": "They will [enter to] burn therein on the Day of Recompense," }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "وَمَا هُمْ عَنْهَا بِغَآئِبِينَ", "translation": "And never therefrom will they be absent." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ", "translation": "And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "ثُمَّ مَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ", "translation": "Then, what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "يَوْمَ لَا تَمْلِكُ نَفْسٌۭ لِّنَفْسٍۢ شَيْـًۭٔا ۖ وَٱلْأَمْرُ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلَّهِ", "translation": "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 Allah." } ], "glosses": [ [ "When", "the sky", "(is) cleft asunder," ], [ "And when", "the stars", "scatter," ], [ "And when", "the seas", "are made to gush forth," ], [ "And when", "the graves", "are overturned," ], [ "Will know", "a soul", "what", "it has sent forth", "and left behind." ], [ "O", "man!", "What", "has deceived you", "concerning your Lord", "the Most Noble," ], [ "Who", "created you,", "then fashioned you", "then balanced you?" ], [ "In", "whatever", "form", "what", "He willed,", "He assembled you." ], [ "Nay!", "But", "you deny", "the Judgment." ], [ "And indeed,", "over you", "(are) surely guardians," ], [ "Noble", "recording," ], [ "They know", "whatever", "you do." ], [ "Indeed,", "the righteous", "(will be) surely in", "bliss," ], [ "And indeed,", "the wicked", "(will be) surely in", "Hellfire." ], [ "They will burn (in) it", "(on the) Day", "(of) the Judgment," ], [ "And not", "they", "from it", "(will be) absent." ], [ "And what", "can make you know", "what", "(is the) Day", "(of) the Judgment?" ], [ "Then,", "what", "can make you know", "what", "(is the) Day", "(of) the Judgment?" ], [ "(The) Day", "not", "will have power", "a soul", "for a soul", "anything,", "and the Command", "that Day", "(will be) with Allah." ] ], "titles": [ "When the sky opens", "The scattered stars", "The seas break forth", "The graves overturned", "What a life has sent ahead", "A question about generosity", "Created and proportioned", "Given a particular form", "Denial of judgment", "Guardians over you", "Noble recorders", "Nothing done is overlooked", "The delight of the righteous", "The outcome of wrongdoing", "The day of recompense", "No disappearance from the account", "What can convey that day?", "The question returns", "Authority belongs to Allah" ], "notes": [ "The first image unsettles what seems most permanent: the sky above us. The chapter begins with a series of future upheavals before naming their human meaning. Its subject is resurrection, without a calendar prediction or an astronomical mechanism.", "The heavenly lights lose their familiar arrangement. Pickthall uses planets where the word aid gives stars, reflecting different English choices for the Arabic. The central image is the breaking of an order people normally take for granted.", "Seas that ordinarily appear bounded are described as pouring forth. Read beside the opened sky and scattered lights, the image continues the collapse of familiar limits. The verse does not identify an earthly coastline or a recorded flood.", "Sepulchres is an older English word for tombs or graves. Their overturning connects the cosmic opening with the people buried in the earth. The scene concerns resurrection generally, rather than the discovery of one named grave.", "Only now does the opening sequence reach its main statement: each soul knows what it has sent ahead and left behind. The vast changes direct attention to personal conduct, including the continuing consequences of an ordinary life.", "The address becomes intimate and questioning. The Creator is called generous precisely as human carelessness is challenged. The commentary reads this as a reminder of human beginnings and dependence, asking the listener to reconsider the source of complacency.", "Creation, fashioning, and proportioning are presented in sequence. The verse directs attention to the gift of embodied life and its dependence on the Creator. It invites gratitude without making physical appearance a measure of a person’s moral worth.", "The particular form of a person is placed within divine willing. This completes the reminder that existence was not self-produced. Read with the preceding question, it challenges the illusion that independence removes the need for gratitude.", "The argument identifies denial of judgment beneath the carelessness being addressed. The short corrective changes the passage from a question about ingratitude to a statement about accountability. The following verses describe deeds as known and recorded.", "Guardians are introduced after the denial of judgment. Their presence means conduct does not disappear simply because human observers fail to notice it. The reader presents this unseen account through the verse’s words, without inventing visible portraits.", "The guardians are described through nobility and recording. Those two qualities connect dignity with careful witness. A written page in an illustration is a symbolic aid to this theme, not an image of an observed heavenly record.", "The statement concerns what people actually do. It completes the description of recording in the previous two verses and brings the passage back to everyday action. Private choices matter even when they leave little public trace.", "Delight is the promised condition of the righteous. The short sentence begins a pair of contrasting outcomes after the account of recorded deeds. It gives hope a definite place within a chapter whose opening imagery is deeply unsettling.", "The contrasting condition is named directly. Read with the promise before it, this verse keeps moral distinctions at the center of the future account. It does not authorize readers to declare the final destiny of particular living people.", "The time of this outcome is the Day of Judgment. The phrase links the warning back to the denial named earlier in verse 9. What was dismissed in earthly life becomes the setting in which its consequences are encountered.", "Absence offers no escape from the account being described. The verse closes the statement about the wicked before the chapter asks its listeners to consider the day itself. Its force comes from brevity and the removal of evasion.", "A question interrupts the description and asks how the day could be conveyed. The reader is invited to pause rather than treat judgment as a familiar spectacle. The next verse deliberately repeats the question to deepen attention.", "The repeated question slows the ending and gives the coming explanation additional weight. Repetition here does not add a second day; it returns the listener to the magnitude of the same event and the limits of ordinary expectation.", "The answer centers on authority: no soul possesses independent power for another, and command belongs to Allah. The chapter ends with the limit of earthly influence, connecting its immense opening scenes to the responsibility of each individual." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 5, "title": "When the familiar world opens", "summary": "Sky, stars, seas, and graves are transformed before each soul recognizes the record of its life.", "reflection": "What effects of your actions might continue after the moment itself has passed?" }, { "start": 6, "end": 12, "title": "The generosity behind your beginning", "summary": "A question about the Creator’s generosity leads to human formation, denial, and the noble recording of deeds.", "reflection": "How might gratitude change one private choice you make today?" }, { "start": 13, "end": 19, "title": "A day beyond earthly influence", "summary": "Contrasting outcomes lead to the repeated question about judgment and the final declaration of divine authority.", "reflection": "Which responsibilities remain yours even when status or connections cannot help?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · The Makkan mission · exact year unrecorded", "year": 622, "body": "The chapter introduction classifies Al-Infitar as Makkan. This locates its first audience within the mission at Makkah without assigning a precise revelation date. The year 622 marks the Hijrah boundary of the Makkan period; it is not an assigned revelation year for this passage.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/info" }, { "title": "During the prophetic mission · remembered recitation", "year": null, "body": "A report from Ibn Umar groups Al-Infitar with At-Takwir and Al-Inshiqaq as chapters that bring resurrection vividly to mind. The report does not date this surah’s revelation.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3333" }, { "title": "The Day of Judgment · beyond the historical calendar", "year": null, "body": "The chapter’s future events are a horizon of belief and accountability. No year, current astronomical event, or countdown is supplied by the text.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/082.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the first audience", "body": "Makkah is the broad setting supplied by the surah’s classification. The chapter names no street or building; a city scene evokes the first audience rather than a documented location of revelation.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/info", "image": 1 }, { "id": "sky-sea-earth", "name": "Sky, sea, and earth · images of transformation", "body": "The opening moves through familiar parts of the natural world. These are universal images in the text, not coordinates for a specific disaster or an archaeological site.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/082.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "judgment", "name": "The final account · no earthly map location", "body": "The final passage concerns judgment and the limits of human power. Its scenery is illustrative; the site does not locate the unseen on a modern map.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/082.htm", "image": 2 } ], "people": [ { "id": "humanity", "title": "The human being addressed directly", "body": "Verse 6 asks the listener what has caused carelessness toward the generous Creator. The address concerns humanity rather than a named ruler or companion.", "verse": 6 }, { "id": "recorders", "title": "Noble recorders · unseen witnesses", "body": "Verses 10–12 describe guardians who record and know human deeds. They are presented through scripture rather than portraits, physical reconstructions, or claims about visible appearance.", "verse": 11 }, { "id": "ibn-umar", "title": "Ibn Umar · transmitter of a recitation report", "body": "Ibn Umar transmits the report linking this chapter with At-Takwir and Al-Inshiqaq. He belongs to the history of the surah’s recitation, rather than being a character named in its verses.", "url": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3333", "label": "Read Tirmidhi 3333" }, { "id": "righteous", "title": "The righteous and the wicked", "body": "The closing contrast describes moral outcomes. It names no individual whose final destiny readers could identify, and it gives no grounds for turning an imagined face into a judgment on a real person.", "verse": 13 } ], "history": [ { "title": "A Makkan chapter of accountability", "body": "Quran.com identifies the surah with the Makkan mission and the challenge to denial of resurrection. The exact revelation year is not established here.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/info" }, { "title": "A linked reading of three chapters", "body": "Tirmidhi 3333, displayed with a hasan grading, preserves a report encouraging the recitation of At-Takwir, Al-Infitar, and Al-Inshiqaq for their vivid presentation of resurrection.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi:3333" }, { "title": "Generosity within the question", "body": "Ma’arif al-Qur’an connects the question in verse 6 with the person’s beginning and the Creator’s care. The interpretive emphasis is gratitude and the correction of heedlessness.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-infitar/6/tafsirs/en-tafsir-maarif-ul-quran" }, { "title": "From cosmic scale to individual action", "body": "The opening’s immense changes culminate in one soul’s knowledge of its life. The central question and closing authority then keep the chapter focused on moral responsibility.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/082.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan. No exact revelation year or named earthly disaster is asserted. Future judgment is not assigned a historical date, and unseen recorders are not depicted." }