Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
AlqariAAatu
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
ما القارعة
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the Calamity ?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
He will be in a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for him whose scales are light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
فأمه هاوية
Faommuhu hawiyatun
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
And what can make you know what that is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
Wama adraka ma hiyah
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
نار حامية
Narun hamiyatun
Raging Fire.