Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
AlqariAAatu
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
What is the terrible calamity!
Ma alqariAAatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He shall live a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
But as for one whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
His abode shall be the abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
And what can make you know what that is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
نار حامية
A burning fire.
Narun hamiyatun