Al-Qari'ah
The Calamity
Surah 101 · Meccan · 11 ayahs
بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ١
Al-qāriʿah.
The Striking Calamity -
مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٢
Mal-qāriʿah.
What is the Striking Calamity?
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٣
Wa mā adrāka mal-qāriʿah.
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
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)
- The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ ٥
Wa takūnul-jibālu kal-ʿihnil-manfūsh.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1
Footnotes (1)
- i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦
Fa ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuh.
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ ٧
Fahuwa fī ʿīshatir rāḍiyah.
He will be in a pleasant life.
وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٨
Wa ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuh.
But as for one whose scales are light,
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ ٩
Fa ummuhū hāwiyah.
His refuge1 will be an abyss.2
Footnotes (2)
- Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace.
- i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ ١٠
Wa mā adrāka mā hiyah.
And what can make you know what that is?
نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ ١١
Nārun ḥāmiyah.
It is a Fire, intensely hot.