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)
- And the mountains will be like carded wool.6253
- 6253 Cf. n. 5682 to 70:9. The mountains are solid things, which seem as if nothing could move them. But in that tremendous cataclysm they will be scattered about like flakes of teased or carded wool. This is a metaphor to show that what we consider very substantial in this life will be as an airy nothing in the spiritual world.
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And the mountains will be like carded wool.
— Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
And the mountains will become as carded wool.
— Marmaduke Pickthall -
And the mountains shall be as loosened wool.
— M. Habib Shakir -
And the mountains will be like carded wool,
— Taqiuddin Hilali and M. Mohsin Khan -
And the mountains shall become as wool carded,
— Abdul-Majid Daryabadi -
and the mountains like tufts of carded wool.
— Hasan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish -
and the mountains shall be like carded wool.
— Ayub Khan -
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
— Sher Ali -
and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool....
— Muhammad Asad -
and the mountains shall be like plucked wool-tufts.
— Arthur Arberry -
and the mountains shall be like fluffs of carded wool in varying colours.{{2}}
— Abu'l Ala Maududi