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