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