Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
What is the terrible calamity!
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
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?
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
The day on which men shall be as 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 shall be as loosened 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 measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He shall 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
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
His abode shall be the abyss.
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
And what can make you know what that is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
And what will explain to thee what this is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
نار حامية
A burning fire.
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!