Al-Qari'ah

The Calamity

Surah 101 · Meccan · 11 ayahs

القارعة

بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

  1. ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ١

    Al-qāriʿah.

    The Striking Calamity -

  2. مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٢

    Mal-qāriʿah.

    What is the Striking Calamity?

  3. وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٣

    Wa mā adrāka mal-qāriʿah.

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

  4. يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ ٤

    Yawma yakūnun-nāsu kal-farāshil-mabthūth.

    It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,1

    Footnotes (1)
    1. The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
  5. وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ ٥

    Wa takūnul-jibālu kal-ʿihnil-manfūsh.

    And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1

    Footnotes (1)
    1. i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
  6. فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦

    Fa ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuh.

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

  7. فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ ٧

    Fahuwa fī ʿīshatir rāḍiyah.

    He will be in a pleasant life.

  8. وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٨

    Wa ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuh.

    But as for one whose scales are light,

  9. فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ ٩

    Fa ummuhū hāwiyah.

    His refuge1 will be an abyss.2

    Footnotes (2)
    1. Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace.
    2. i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
  10. وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ ١٠

    Wa mā adrāka mā hiyah.

    And what can make you know what that is?

  11. نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ ١١

    Nārun ḥāmiyah.

    It is a Fire, intensely hot.