الـقارعـة

1 The Striking Calamity -

1 The terrible calamity!

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!

2 What is the Striking Calamity?

2 What is the terrible calamity!

2 What is the Calamity ?

3 And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?

3 And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?

3 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!

4 It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,

4 The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,

4 A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths

5 And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

5 And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.

5 And the mountains will become as carded wool.

6 Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],

6 Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,

6 Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),

7 He will be in a pleasant life.

7 He shall live a pleasant life.

7 He will live a pleasant life.

8 But as for one whose scales are light,

8 And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,

8 But as for him whose scales are light,

9 His refuge will be an abyss.

9 His abode shall be the abyss.

9 A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,

10 And what can make you know what that is?

10 And what will make you know what it is?

10 Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -

11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

11 A burning fire.

11 Raging Fire.