Al Qari'a

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1 The Striking Calamity -

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1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!

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2 What is the Striking Calamity?

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2 What is the Calamity ?

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3 And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?

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3 Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!

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4 It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,

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4 A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths

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5 And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

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5 And the mountains will become as carded wool.

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6 Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],

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6 Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),

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7 He will be in a pleasant life.

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7 He will live a pleasant life.

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8 But as for one whose scales are light,

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8 But as for him whose scales are light,

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9 His refuge will be an abyss.

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9 A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,

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10 And what can make you know what that is?

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10 Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -

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11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

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11 Raging Fire.