Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
What is the Calamity ?
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
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 explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour 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 men 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, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life.
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
But as for one whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose scales are light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
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 explain to thee what this is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
نار حامية
Raging Fire.
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!