The Striking Calamity -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
ما القارعة
What is the Calamity ?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
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,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose scales are light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
فأمه هاوية
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
نار حامية
Raging Fire.