Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the Calamity ?
ما القارعة
What is the terrible calamity!
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He shall live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
فأمه هاوية
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what can make you know what that is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Raging Fire.
نار حامية
A burning fire.