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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).

2 What is the Striking Calamity?

2 What is the striking (Hour)?

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

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

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

5 And the mountains will be like 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,

7 He will be in a pleasant life.

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

8 But as for one whose scales are light,

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

9 His refuge will be an abyss.

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

10 And what can make you know what that is?

10 And what will make you know what it is?

11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

11 (It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!