Chapter 101, 11 verses
The terrible calamity!
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
AlqariAAatu
The Striking Calamity -
What is the terrible calamity!
What is the Calamity ?
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
He shall live a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will be in a pleasant life.
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for one whose scales are light,
His abode shall be the abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
His refuge will be an abyss.
And what will make you know what it is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what can make you know what that is?
A burning fire.
Raging Fire.
Narun hamiyatun
It is a Fire, intensely hot.