Surah 084 - AL-INSHIQAQ (THE SUNDERING) - سور...

Name Why the name Al-Baqarah? Al-Baqarah (the Cow) has been so named from the story of the Cow occurring in this Surah (vv. 67-73). It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the Surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah ...  Show more

Name This Surah takes its name from v.33. Al-i-Imran, like the names of many other surahs, is merely a name to distinguish it from other surahs and does not imply that the family of Imran has been discussed in it. The Period of Revelation This Surah consists of four discours ...  Show more

This short chapter of nineteen verses was revealed in Mecca and it is named from the word in the first verse, infitarat, which means to split or cleave asunder. Chapter 81 was revealed around the same time and both chapters are closely associated. Their subject matter is similar ...  Show more

Surah Al-Inshiqaq (The Sundering, Splitting Open) by Abdullah Ali Jabir 

84 Al-Inshiqaaq  ٱلْإِنْشِقَاق
al-ʾInšiq̈āq̈  The Rending Asunder, The Sundering, Splitting Open, The Splitting Asunder 25 (1) Makkah

(84:1) When the sky is rent asunder (84:2) and hearkens to the command of its Lord, doing what it should; (84:3) and when the earth is stretched out (84:4) and casts out what is within it and is emptied, (84:5) and hearkens to the command of its Lord, doing what it should. (84 ...