The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the striking (Hour)?
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like carded 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 balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
He will be in a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
But as for one whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
His refuge will be an abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
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
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ