Al-Qariah (The Calamity)

سورة القارعة

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

1 الْقَارِعَةُ

The Striking Calamity –

2 مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

What is the Striking Calamity?

3 وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

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

4 يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ

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

5 وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

6 فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],

7 فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

He will be in a pleasant life.

8 وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

But as for one whose scales are light,

9 فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ

His refuge will be an abyss.

10 وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ

And what can make you know what that is?

11 نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ

It is a Fire, intensely hot.