Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the terrible calamity!
What is the Calamity ?
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
He will be in a pleasant life.
He shall live a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life.
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
But as for one whose scales are light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But as for him whose scales are light,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
His refuge will be an abyss.
His abode shall be the abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
A burning fire.
Raging Fire.
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ