Surah Al-Qari'ah

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. 101:1 ▶

   ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿١﴾

   al-qāriʿah

   The Striking Calamity -

2. 101:2 ▶

   مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿٢﴾

   ma l-qāriʿah

   What is the Striking Calamity?

3. 101:3 ▶

   وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ﴿٣﴾

   wamā 'adrāka ma l-qāriʿah

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

4. 101:4 ▶

   يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ﴿٤﴾

   yawma yakūnu n-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūth

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

   The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.

5. 101:5 ▶

   وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ ﴿٥﴾

   watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿihni l-manfūsh

   And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

   i.e., beginning to disintegrate.

6. 101:6 ▶

   فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿٦﴾

   fa'ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuh

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

7. 101:7 ▶

   فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ﴿٧﴾

   fahuwa fī ʿīshatir rāḍiyah

   He will be in a pleasant life.

8. 101:8 ▶

   وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ﴿٨﴾

   wa'ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuh

   But as for one whose scales are light,

9. 101:9 ▶

   فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ ﴿٩﴾

   fa'ummuhū hāwiyah

   His refuge will be an abyss.

   Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge), which will envelop him as in an embrace.

   i.e., the pit of Hellfire.

10. 101:10 ▶

    وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ﴿١٠﴾

    wamā 'adrāka mā hiyah

    And what can make you know what that is?

11. 101:11 ▶

    نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ﴿١١﴾

    nārun ḥāmiyah

    It is a Fire, intensely hot.

In the transliteration, “|”: the reciter stops; “·”: sakt, a brief cut without taking a breath.