Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
The terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
What is the Calamity ?
What is the terrible calamity!
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life.
He shall live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose scales are light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what can make you know what that is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
And what will make you know what it is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
نار حامية
Raging Fire.
A burning fire.