chapter Al-Qaari'a

القارعة

Al-Qaari'a 

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِیمِ

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful

الْقَارِعَةُ(1)

The Striking Calamity (1)

مَا الْقَارِعَةُ(2)

What is the Striking Calamity?(2) 

وَمَآ أَدْرَیٰکَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ(3)

And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?(3) 

یَوْمَ یَکُونُ النَّاسُ کَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ(4)

It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,(4)

وَتَکُونُ الْجِبَالُ کَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ(5)

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up(5) 

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِینُهُۥ(6)

Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],(6)

فَهُوَ فِی عِیشَةٍ رَّاضِیَةٍ(7)

He will be in a pleasant life(7)

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِینُهُۥ(8)

But as for one whose scales are light,(8)

فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِیَةٌ(9)

His refuge will be an abyss(9)

وَمَآ أَدْرَیٰکَ مَا هِیَهْ(10)

And what can make you know what that is?(10)

نَارٌ حَامِیَةٌۢ(11)

 (It is a Fire, intensely hot (11