AlqariAAatu
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).
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Chapter 101, 11 verses
AlqariAAatu
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).
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Faommuhu hawiyatun
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
Narun hamiyatun
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ