Al Qari'a

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1 The Striking Calamity -

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1 The terrible calamity!

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2 What is the Striking Calamity?

Shakir

2 What is the terrible calamity!

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

Shakir

3 And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?

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

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4 The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,

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

Shakir

5 And the mountains shall be as loosened 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 measure of good deeds is heavy,

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7 He will be in a pleasant life.

Shakir

7 He shall live a pleasant life.

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8 But as for one whose scales are light,

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8 And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,

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9 His refuge will be an abyss.

Shakir

9 His abode shall be the abyss.

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10 And what can make you know what that is?

Shakir

10 And what will make you know what it is?

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11 It is a Fire, intensely hot.

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11 A burning fire.