Chapter 101, 11 verses
The terrible calamity!
The Striking Calamity -
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 terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
He shall live a pleasant life.
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
His abode shall be the abyss.
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
And what will make you know what it is?
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
A burning fire.
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!