AlqariAAatu
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
AlqariAAatu
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
Ma alqariAAatu
مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the terrible calamity!
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
He will be in a pleasant life.
He shall live a pleasant life.
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
But as for one whose scales are light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
His refuge will be an abyss.
His abode shall be the abyss.
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Narun hamiyatun
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
A burning fire.