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Al-Qari'ah

The Calamity11 Versesmakkah

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101:1
ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity
١
The Striking Calamity -
101:2
مَا
What
ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
(is) the Striking Calamity
٢
What is the Striking Calamity?
101:3
وَمَآ
And what
أَدۡرَٮٰكَ
will make you know
مَا
what
ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
(is) the Striking Calamity
٣
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
101:4
يَوۡمَ
(The) Day
يَكُونُ
will be
ٱلنَّاسُ
the mankind
كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ
like moths
ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ
scattered
٤
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,1
101:5
وَتَكُونُ
And will be
ٱلۡجِبَالُ
the mountains
كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ
like wool
ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ
fluffed up
٥
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1
101:6
فَأَمَّا
Then as for
مَن
(him) whose
ثَقُلَتۡ
(are) heavy
مَوٰزِينُهُۥ
his scales
٦
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
101:7
فَهُوَ
Then he
فِى
(will be) in
عِيشَةٍ
a life
رَّاضِيَةٍ
pleasant
٧
He will be in a pleasant life.
101:8
وَأَمَّا
But as for
مَنۡ
(him) whose
خَفَّتۡ
(are) light
مَوٰزِينُهُۥ
his scales
٨
But as for one whose scales are light,
101:9
فَأُمُّهُۥ
His abode
هَاوِيَةٌ
(will be the) Pit
٩
His refuge1 will be an abyss.2
101:10
وَمَآ
And what
أَدۡرَٮٰكَ
will make you know
مَا
what
هِيَهۡ
it is
١٠
And what can make you know what that is?
101:11
نَارٌ
A Fire
حَامِيَةُۢ
intensely hot
١١
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
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