Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ma alqariAAatu
ما القارعة
What is the Calamity ?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وما أدراك ما القارعة
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
He will be in a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose scales are light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فأمه هاوية
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
And what can make you know what that is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وما أدراك ما هيه
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Narun hamiyatun
نار حامية
Raging Fire.