ٱلرُّوم : ٤٣

  • فَأَقِمۡ So set
  • وَجۡهَكَ your face
  • لِلدِّينِ to the religion
  • ٱلۡقَيِّمِ right
  • مِن before
  • قَبۡلِ before
  • أَن [that]
  • يَأۡتِيَ comes
  • يَوۡمٞ a Day
  • لَّا not
  • مَرَدَّ (can be) averted
  • لَهُۥ [it]
  • مِنَ from
  • ٱللَّهِۖ Allah
  • يَوۡمَئِذٖ That Day
  • يَصَّدَّعُونَ they will be divided
So direct your face [i.e., self] toward the correct religion before a Day comes from Allāh of which there is no repelling. That Day, they will be divided.1
Footnotes
1 Into those destined for Paradise and those destined for Hell.
So set your purpose for the upright religion, the religion of Islam, before there comes the inevitable day from God, namely, the Day of Resurrection. On that day they shall be sundered (yassadda'oona: the original taa' [yatasadda'oona] has been assimilated with the saad), that is, they will be split [into separate groups] after the Reckoning [destined] for the Paradise or the Hellfire.