AlqariAAatu
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
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).
Chapter 101, 11 verses
AlqariAAatu
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
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).
Ma alqariAAatu
ما القارعة
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فأمه هاوية
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Narun hamiyatun
نار حامية
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!