Chapter 101, 11 verses
AlqariAAatu
The Striking Calamity -
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
The terrible calamity!
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
What is the terrible calamity!
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will be in a pleasant life.
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
He shall live a pleasant life.
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for one whose scales are light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
His refuge will be an abyss.
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
His abode shall be the abyss.
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will explain to thee what this is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Narun hamiyatun
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
A burning fire.