Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
Das Verhängnis!
The terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the Calamity ?
Was ist das Verhängnis?
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!
Und was läßt dich wissen, was das Verhängnis ist?
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
Am Tag, da die Menschen wie flatternde Motten sein werden
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.
und die Berge wie zerflockte gefärbte Wolle sein werden.
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),
Was nun jemanden angeht, dessen Waagschalen schwer sind,
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
so wird er in einem zufriedenen Leben sein.
He shall live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
Was aber jemanden angeht, dessen Waagschalen leicht sind,
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,
dessen Mutter wird ein Abgrund sein.
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what can make you know what that is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
Und was läßt dich wissen, was das ist?
And what will make you know what it is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Raging Fire.
Ein sehr heißes Feuer.
A burning fire.