بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The Striking Calamity -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
Chapter 101, 11 verses
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The Striking Calamity -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
ما القارعة
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
فأمه هاوية
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
نار حامية
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!