Chapter 101, 11 verses
Das Verhängnis!
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).
Was ist das Verhängnis?
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
Und was läßt dich wissen, was das Verhängnis ist?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
Am Tag, da die Menschen wie flatternde Motten sein werden
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
und die Berge wie zerflockte gefärbte Wolle sein werden.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Was nun jemanden angeht, dessen Waagschalen schwer sind,
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
so wird er in einem zufriedenen Leben sein.
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
Was aber jemanden angeht, dessen Waagschalen leicht sind,
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
dessen Mutter wird ein Abgrund sein.
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
Und was läßt dich wissen, was das ist?
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Ein sehr heißes Feuer.
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!