The Striking Calamity -
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The Striking Calamity -
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم القارعة
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
What is the Striking Calamity?
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
ما القارعة
What is the striking (Hour)?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
وما أدراك ما القارعة
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
يوم يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
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 be like carded wool.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
فأما من ثقلت موازينه
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
He will be in a pleasant life.
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
But as for one whose scales are light,
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
وأما من خفت موازينه
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
His refuge will be an abyss.
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
فأمه هاوية
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will explain to thee what this is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
نار حامية
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!