In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
What is the striking (Hour)?
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
ما القارعة
What is the terrible calamity!
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He shall live a pleasant life.
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
وأما من خفت موازينه
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
فأمه هاوية
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what will make you know what it is?
And what will explain to thee what this is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
نار حامية
A burning fire.