Surah 101 · Makki

Al-Qari'ah

The Calamity · 11 ayat

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101:1

ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ﴿1﴾

The Striking Calamity

101:2

مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ﴿2﴾

What is the Striking Calamity

101:3

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ﴿3﴾

And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity

101:4

يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ﴿4﴾

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

101:5

وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ﴿5﴾

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up

101:6

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ﴿6﴾

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

101:7

فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ﴿7﴾

He will be in a pleasant life

101:8

وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ﴿8﴾

But as for one whose scales are light

101:9

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ﴿9﴾

His refuge will be an abyss

101:10

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ﴿10﴾

And what can make you know what that is

101:11

نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ﴿11﴾

It is a Fire, intensely hot

Translation

Saheeh International by Umm Muhammad. Arabic text sourced from The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia. Dataset Quran JSON v3.1.2, CC-BY-SA-4.0.