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