The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
AlqariAAatu
The Striking 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
The Striking 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 Striking Calamity?
What is the striking (Hour)?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
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
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
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 be like wool, fluffed up.
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 one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
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 be in 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 one 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
His refuge will be an abyss.
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
And what will explain to thee what this is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what can make you know what that is?
And what will make you know what it is?
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
Narun hamiyatun
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!