The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
What is the Calamity ?
What is the striking (Hour)?
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 know what the striking (Hour) 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
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
And the mountains will be like carded 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 balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
But as for one whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
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.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!