الـقارعـة

1 The Striking Calamity -

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).

1 The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:

2 What is the Striking Calamity?

2 What is the striking (Hour)?

2 What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?

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

3 And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?

3 And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?

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

4 It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.

4 (It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,

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

5 And the mountains will be like carded wool.

5 And the mountains will be like carded wool.

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

6 Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,

6 Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,

7 He will be in a pleasant life.

7 He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).

7 Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.

8 But as for one whose scales are light,

8 But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,

8 But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -

9 His refuge will be an abyss.

9 He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).

9 Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.

10 And what can make you know what that is?

10 And what will make you know what it is?

10 And what will explain to thee what this is?

11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

11 (It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!

11 (It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!