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)