بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿1﴾
(1) The Striking Calamity -
101:1
101. Al-Qaari'a
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القارعة
Arabic text: Tanzil Project (Uthmani script, Hafs narration). Translation: Saheeh International (Noor International Center), via QuranEnc.com. Source details
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿2﴾
(2) What is the Striking Calamity?
101:2
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿3﴾
(3) And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
101:3
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ﴿4﴾
(4) It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,[1975]
Translation notes
[1975]- The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
101:4
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ ﴿5﴾
(5) And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.[1976]
Translation notes
[1976]- i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
101:5
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿6﴾
(6) Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
101:6
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ﴿7﴾
(7) He will be in a pleasant life.
101:7
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿8﴾
(8) But as for one whose scales are light,
101:8
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ ﴿9﴾
(9) His refuge[1977] will be an abyss.[1978]
Translation notes
[1977]- Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace. [1978]- i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
101:9
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ﴿10﴾
(10) And what can make you know what that is?
101:10
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ﴿11﴾
(11) It is a Fire, intensely hot.
101:11