بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English Translation
OH, the sudden calamity!
Surah 101
The Calamity
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Recitation by Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Arabic • English
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English Translation
OH, the sudden calamity!
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English Translation
How awesome the sudden calamity!
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
English Translation
And what could make thee conceive what that sudden calamity will be?
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
English Translation
[It will occur] on the Day when men will be like moths swarming in confusion,
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
English Translation
and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool....
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
English Translation
And then, he whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍۢ رَّاضِيَةٍۢ
English Translation
shall find himself in a happy' state of life;
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
English Translation
whereas he whose weight is light in the balance
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌۭ
English Translation
shall be engulfed by an abyss.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
English Translation
And what could make thee conceive what that [abyss] will be?
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ
English Translation
A fire hotly burning!
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