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).
The terrible calamity!
Chapter 101, 11 verses
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).
The terrible calamity!
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
ما القارعة
What is the striking (Hour)?
What is the terrible 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?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
(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.
The day on which men shall be as scattered moths,
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
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,
Then as for him whose measure of good deeds is heavy,
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
فهو في عيشة راضية
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
He shall live a pleasant life.
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,
And as for him whose measure of good deeds is light,
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
فأمه هاوية
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
His abode shall be the abyss.
And what will explain to thee what this is?
وما أدراك ما هيه
And what will make you know what it is?
And what will make you know what it is?
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
نار حامية
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!
A burning fire.