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