القارعة
The Calamity
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
al-qāriʿatu
The Striking Calamity -
mā l-qāriʿatu
What is the Striking Calamity?
wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
yawma yakūnu l-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūthi
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni l-manfūshi
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
fa-ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuhu
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin
He will be in a pleasant life.
wa-ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuhu
But as for one whose scales are light,
fa-ummuhu hāwiyatun
His refuge will be an abyss.
wamā adrāka mā hiyah
And what can make you know what that is?
nārun ḥāmiyatun
It is a Fire, intensely hot.