ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ١

The Striking Calamity -

مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٢

What is the Striking Calamity?

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٣

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

يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ ٤

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

وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ ٥

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦

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

فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ ٧

He will be in a pleasant life.

وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٨

But as for one whose scales are light,

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ ٩

His refuge will be an abyss.

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ ١٠

And what can make you know what that is?

نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ ١١

It is a Fire, intensely hot.