الـقارعـة

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).

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!

2 What is the Striking Calamity?

2 What is the striking (Hour)?

2 What is the Calamity ?

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

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

3 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!

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.

4 A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths

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

5 And the mountains will be like carded wool.

5 And the mountains will become as carded wool.

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,

6 Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),

7 He will be in a pleasant life.

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

7 He will live a pleasant life.

8 But as for one whose scales are light,

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

8 But as for him whose scales are light,

9 His refuge will be an abyss.

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

9 A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,

10 And what can make you know what that is?

10 And what will make you know what it is?

10 Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -

11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

11 (It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!

11 Raging Fire.