Al-Qari'ah · The Calamity

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿١﴾

The Striking Calamity -

al-qāriʿatu

مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿٢﴾

What is the Striking Calamity?

mā l-qāriʿatu

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿٣﴾

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

wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ﴿٤﴾

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

yawma yakūnu l-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūthi

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ ﴿٥﴾

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

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

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿٦﴾

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

fa-ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuhu

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍۢ رَّاضِيَةٍۢ ﴿٧﴾

He will be in a pleasant life.

fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿٨﴾

But as for one whose scales are light,

wa-ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuhu

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌۭ ﴿٩﴾

His refuge will be an abyss.

fa-ummuhu hāwiyatun

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ﴿١٠﴾

And what can make you know what that is?

wamā adrāka mā hiyah

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ﴿١١﴾

It is a Fire, intensely hot.

nārun ḥāmiyatun