Al Qari'a

1 AlqariAAatu

1 The Striking Calamity -

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).

2 Ma alqariAAatu

2 What is the Striking Calamity?

2 What is the striking (Hour)?

3 Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu

3 And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?

3 And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?

4 Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi

4 It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,

4 It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.

5 Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi

5 And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

5 And the mountains will be like carded wool.

6 Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu

6 Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],

6 Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,

7 Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin

7 He will be in a pleasant life.

7 He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).

8 Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu

8 But as for one whose scales are light,

8 But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,

9 Faommuhu hawiyatun

9 His refuge will be an abyss.

9 He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).

10 Wama adraka ma hiyah

10 And what can make you know what that is?

10 And what will make you know what it is?

11 Narun hamiyatun

11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

11 (It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!