The CalamityAl-Qaari'aالقارعة

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

The Striking Calamity!

مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

What is the Striking Calamity?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

How do you know what the Striking Calamity is?

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

On that Day people will be like scattered moths¹,

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

and the mountains will be like carded wool².

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

Then the one whose scales of good deeds are heavy,

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

will have a pleasant life³.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

But the one whose scales of good deeds are light,

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ

his abode will be the abyss⁴.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

And how do you know what it is?