الْقَارِعَةُ
OH, the sudden calamity! (1)
مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
How awesome the sudden calamity! (2)
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ
And what could make thee conceive what that sudden calamity will be? (3)
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ
[It will occur] on the Day when men will be like moths swarming in confusion, (4)
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ
and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool.... (5)
فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
And then, he whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance (6)
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ
shall find himself in a happy state of life; (7)
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ
whereas he whose weight is light in the balance (8)
فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ
shall be engulfed by an abyss. (9)
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ
And what could make thee conceive what that [abyss] will be? (10)
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ
A fire hotly burning! (11)
- OH, the sudden calamity!1
- 1 I.e., the coming of the Last Hour, which will involve a terrifying transformation of the world (see note 63 on 14:48 and note 90 on 20:105-107).
- The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:6251
- 6251 The Day of Noise and Clamour is the Day of Judgement, when the whole of the present order of things will be overthrown with a tremendous convulsion. Cf. n. 6235 to 99:1, and n. 6096 to 88:1. AJ] our present landmarks will be lost. It will be a stunning experience to begin with, but it will inaugurate a new world of true and permanent values, in which every human deed will have its true and just consequences, as if weighed in the balance. See verses 6-11 below.
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The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
— Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
The Calamity!
— Marmaduke Pickthall -
The terrible calamity!
— M. Habib Shakir -
Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection),
— Taqiuddin Hilali and M. Mohsin Khan -
The Striking!
— Abdul-Majid Daryabadi -
The Clatterer (the Day of Judgement)!
— Hasan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish -
The Clatterer __
— Ayub Khan -
The Great Calamity!
— Sher Ali -
OH, the sudden calamity!
— Muhammad Asad -
The Clatterer!
— Arthur Arberry -
The Calamity!{{1}}
— Abu'l Ala Maududi