The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
AlqariAAatu
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
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 (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
AlqariAAatu
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Calamity!
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 (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the Calamity ?
What is the striking (Hour)?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly - scattered moths
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works),
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will live a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for him whose scales are light,
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother,
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
And what will explain to thee what this is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is! -
And what will make you know what it is?
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
Narun hamiyatun
Raging Fire.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!