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).
The terrible calamity!
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
What is the terrible calamity!
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible 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.
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
He shall live a pleasant life.
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
And what will make you know what it is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
A burning fire.