Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
AlqariAAatu
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the Calamity ?
Ma alqariAAatu
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
His refuge will be an abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
And what can make you know what that is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Raging Fire.
Narun hamiyatun
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ