AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
The Striking Calamity -
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
The Striking Calamity -
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the striking (Hour)?
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the Calamity ?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
His refuge will be an abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what will make you know what it is?
And what can make you know what that is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
Narun hamiyatun
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Raging Fire.