Al-Qari'ah

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

al-qāriʿatu

The Striking Calamity -

مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

mā l-qāriʿatu

What is the Striking Calamity?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu

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

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

yawma yakūnu l-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūthi

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

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni l-manfūshi

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

fa-ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuhu

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

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin

He will be in a pleasant life.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

wa-ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuhu

But as for one whose scales are light,

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ

fa-ummuhu hāwiyatun

His refuge will be an abyss.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

wamā adrāka mā hiyah

And what can make you know what that is?

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ

nārun ḥāmiyatun

It is a Fire, intensely hot.