Quran Universe
30:43

فَأَقِمۡ وَجۡهَكَ لِلدِّينِ ٱلۡقَيِّمِ مِن قَبۡلِ أَن يَأۡتِيَ يَوۡمٞ لَّا مَرَدَّ لَهُۥ مِنَ ٱللَّهِۖ يَوۡمَئِذٖ يَصَّدَّعُونَ

Faaqim wajhaka lilddeeni alqayyimi min qabli an yatiya yawmun la maradda lahu mina Allahi yawmaithin yassaddaAAoona

So direct your face toward the correct religion before a Day comes from Allah of which there is no repelling. That Day, they will be divided.

Word by word
  1. فَأَقِمۡSo set
  2. وَجۡهَكَyour face
  3. لِلدِّينِto the religion
  4. ٱلۡقَيِّمِright
  5. مِنbefore
  6. قَبۡلِbefore
  7. أَن[that]
  8. يَأۡتِيَcomes
  9. يَوۡمٞa Day
  10. لَّاnot
  11. مَرَدَّ(can be) averted
  12. لَهُۥ[it]
  13. مِنَfrom
  14. ٱللَّهِۖAllah
  15. يَوۡمَئِذٖThat Day
  16. يَصَّدَّعُونَthey will be divided
Ar-Rum · 30:43Makkah

Set your face to the right way before that Day comes.

Hurry to good, while there is time

The urgency
turn nowto the straight religion
before
a Dayno one can avert it
when
people dividetwo groups
The timing
later, when settledafter the busy season
before the Dayhasten to good now

Ibn Kathir explains that Allah here commands His servants to hasten to obey Him and to do good deeds. When He wills the Day to come, no one can avert it. Then people will be divided into two groups.

I will get serious about prayer after exams. After the wedding. After the kids grow up. The list never ends. The verse says: before. Before the Day nobody can push back. Today is already before.

I will sort out my faith when life settles down.

The time to turn is now, while turning is still possible.

Try this

Pick one good thing you keep postponing and do the first step of it today.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

So, set you your face to the straight and right religion, before there comes from Allah a Day which none can avert. On that Day men shall be divided (43)Whosoever disbelieves will suffer from his disbelief, and whosoever does righteous good deeds, then such will prepare a good place for themselves (44)That He may reward those who believe and do righteous good deeds, out of His bounty. Verily, He likes not the disbelievers (45)

The Command to follow the Straight Path before the Day of Resurrection

Here Allah commands His servants to hasten to obedience to Him and to hasten to do good deeds.

فَأَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ الْقَيِّمِ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ يَوْمٌ لَا مَرَدَّ لَهُ مِنَ اللَّهِ ۖ 

(So, set you your face to the straight and right religion, before there comes from Allah a Day which none can avert.) The Day of Resurrection, for when Allah wants it to happen, no one will be able to avert it.

يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصَّدَّعُونَ

(On that Day men shall be divided.) means, they will be separated, with one group in Paradise and another in Hell. Allah says:

مَنْ كَفَرَ فَعَلَيْهِ كُفْرُهُ ۖ وَمَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَلِأَنْفُسِهِمْ يَمْهَدُونَ - لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ ۚ

(Whosoever disbelieves will suffer from his disbelief, and whosoever does righteous good deeds, then such will prepare a good place for themselves. That He may reward those who believe. and do righteous good deeds, out of His bounty.) meaning that He may reward them from His bounty, in return for one good deed, he will get the reward for ten, up to seven hundred like it, as much as Allah wills.

إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْكَافِرِينَ

(Verily, He likes not the disbelievers.) yet He is still just with them and does not oppress them.