Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
The terrible calamity!
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the terrible calamity!
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
What is the Calamity ?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
He will be in a pleasant life.
He shall live a pleasant life.
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
He will live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
But as for him whose scales are light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
His abode shall be the abyss.
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
And what will explain to thee what this is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
A burning fire.
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
Raging Fire.