The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
The terrible calamity!
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
The terrible calamity!
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the terrible calamity!
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
He will be in a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He shall live a pleasant life.
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
But as for one whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
His refuge will be an abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
His abode shall be the abyss.
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
And what can make you know what that is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what will make you know what it is?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Narun hamiyatun
A burning fire.
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ