بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, the All-Beneficent, the All-Merciful
ٱقْتَرَبَتِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ وَٱنشَقَّ ٱلْقَمَرُ
The Hour has drawn near and the moon is split.
وَإِن يَرَوْا۟ ءَايَةًۭ يُعْرِضُوا۟ وَيَقُولُوا۟ سِحْرٌۭ مُّسْتَمِرٌّۭ
If they see a sign, they turn away, and say, ‘An incessant magic!’
وَكَذَّبُوا۟ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ ۚ وَكُلُّ أَمْرٍۢ مُّسْتَقِرٌّۭ
They denied and followed their own desires, and every matter has a setting [appropriate to it].
وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَنۢبَآءِ مَا فِيهِ مُزْدَجَرٌ
There have already come to them reports containing admonishment,
حِكْمَةٌۢ بَٰلِغَةٌۭ ۖ فَمَا تُغْنِ ٱلنُّذُرُ
[and representing] far-reaching wisdom; but warnings are of no avail!
فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ۘ يَوْمَ يَدْعُ ٱلدَّاعِ إِلَىٰ شَىْءٍۢ نُّكُرٍ
So turn away from them! The day when the Caller calls to a dire thing,
خُشَّعًا أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌۭ مُّنتَشِرٌۭ
they will emerge from the graves as if they were scattered locusts with a humbled look [in their eyes],
مُّهْطِعِينَ إِلَى ٱلدَّاعِ ۖ يَقُولُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَسِرٌۭ
scrambling toward the summoner. The faithless will say, ‘This is a hard day!’
English translation: Ali Quli Qarai
The sura opens by pairing two upheavals: The Hour has drawn near and the moon was split (v.1). It then reports the deniers who, seeing any sign, turn away and say, 'continuous magic' (v.2), belying the truth and following their desires though every matter will settle (v.3). Warning has reached them -- news containing a deterrent, consummate wisdom (vv.4-5) -- yet the Prophet is told to turn away until the Day the Caller calls to a terrible thing (v.6), when they pour from their graves like scattered locusts, necks outstretched, crying 'This is a hard Day' (vv.7-8).
All present sources read the moon was split as a real, past miracle at Mecca. al-Tabarsi and al-Tusi marshal the transmission -- Ibn Mas'ud, Anas, Ibn 'Abbas, Jubayr ibn Mut'im, Hudhayfa, Ibn 'Umar -- and reject the minority reading (al-Hasan, 'Ata', al-Balkhi) that the moon will split at the Hour, since inshaqqa is past and the next verse presumes an event already seen and dismissed as magic. al-Mizan develops this into a sustained defense: the split is genuine, rationally possible, and attested by widely-transmitted reports; it answers the objection from 17:59 (signs withheld because the ancients denied them) by noting that this requested sign would have entailed punishment, which God deferred while the Prophet remained among them -- the deferred blow falling at Badr -- and explains the absence of observatory records (none in the Hijaz; the event brief, nocturnal, then rejoined). Web cross-check confirms the splitting is recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari (4584) and Muslim (2800) and was judged mutawatir by Ibn Kathir.
On the lexicon the sources converge: sihr mustamirr is 'persistent/strong magic' (al-Tabarsi, from rope-twisting) or 'passing, vanishing' (Mujahid); muzdajar is 'a deterrent / one who takes heed'; the Caller is Israfil summoning to the Gathering (Muqatil in al-Tabarsi), and the resurrection here is bodily, against those who limit it to souls. al-Qummi and al-Bahrani add the narrative frame -- Quraysh's demand, the splitting and rejoining -- and both carry an Imami overlay: 'the Hour has drawn near' is glossed as the rising of al-Qa'im, and the 'Caller' as the Imam calling to what people abhor. al-Bahrani's dossier is the fullest and the most sensitive: al-Khasibi's long Mecca narration (with 'Ali invoking at al-Safa and the Mash'arayn, a genealogical slur against Abu Lahab, and 612 believers) and al-Nu'mani's reports applying v.2 to a future 'voice from heaven' and Iblis's cry over 'Uthman -- rajʿa material recorded here strictly as attributed, and flagged for review.