Surah 101 · Meccan · 11 verses
سُورَةُ القَارِعَةِ
Al-Qaari'a
The Calamity
101:1
Arabic
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English
The Striking Calamity -
101:2
Arabic
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English
What is the Striking Calamity?
101:3
Arabic
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
101:4
Arabic
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
English
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
101:5
Arabic
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
English
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
101:6
Arabic
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
English
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
101:7
Arabic
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍۢ رَّاضِيَةٍۢ
English
He will be in a pleasant life.
101:8
Arabic
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
English
But as for one whose scales are light,
101:9
Arabic
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌۭ
English
His refuge will be an abyss.
101:10
Arabic
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
English
And what can make you know what that is?
101:11
Arabic
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ
English
It is a Fire, intensely hot.