Al-Qaari'a

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. Ayah101:1#Copy

   ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

   (1) The Striking Calamity -

2. Ayah101:2#Copy

   مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

   (2) What is the Striking Calamity?

3. Ayah101:3#Copy

   وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

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

4. Ayah101:4#Copy

   يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

   (4) It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,[1975]

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   [1975]- The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
5. Ayah101:5#Copy

   وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

   (5) And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.[1976]

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   [1976]- i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
6. Ayah101:6#Copy

   فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

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

7. Ayah101:7#Copy

   فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

   (7) He will be in a pleasant life.

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   وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

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

9. Ayah101:9#Copy

   فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ

   (9) His refuge[1977] will be an abyss.[1978]

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   [1977]- Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace. [1978]- i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
10. Ayah101:10#Copy

    وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

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