Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ma alqariAAatu
ما القارعة
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فهو في عيشة راضية
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
But as for one whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وأما من خفت موازينه
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
His refuge will be an abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فأمه هاوية
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
And what can make you know what that is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will explain to thee what this is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Narun hamiyatun
نار حامية
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!