بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the terrible calamity!
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?
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,
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
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,
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
He will be in a pleasant life.
He shall live a pleasant life.
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
But as for one whose scales are light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
His refuge will be an abyss.
His abode shall be the abyss.
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
A burning fire.