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