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).
AlqariAAatu
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
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).
AlqariAAatu
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
Ma alqariAAatu
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
But as for one whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
Faommuhu hawiyatun
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
Narun hamiyatun
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ