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