Chapter 101, 11 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
The Striking Calamity -
What is the Calamity ?
ما القارعة
What is the terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
He will live a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He shall live a pleasant life.
He will be in a pleasant life.
But as for him whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But as for one whose scales are light,
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
فأمه هاوية
His abode shall be the abyss.
His refuge will be an abyss.
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
And what can make you know what that is?
Raging Fire.
نار حامية
A burning fire.
It is a Fire, intensely hot.