Al-Qari'ah

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ 1

The Striking Calamity -

مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ 2

What is the Striking Calamity?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ 3

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

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ 4

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

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ 5

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

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ 6

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

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ 7

He will be in a pleasant life.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ 8

But as for one whose scales are light,

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ 9

His refuge1 will be an abyss.2

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ 10

And what can make you know what that is?

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ 11

It is a Fire, intensely hot.