Al-Qaari'a

The Crashing Blow!

الْقَارِعَةُ

al-qāriʿatu

What is the Crashing Blow?

مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

mā l-qāriʿatu

What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is?

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu

On a Day when people will be like scattered moths

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ

yawma yakūnu l-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūthi

and the mountains like tufts of wool,

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنْفُوشِ

watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni l-manfūshi

the one whose good deeds are heavy on the scales

فَأَمَّا مَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

fa-ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuhu

will have a pleasant life,

فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَاضِيَةٍ

fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin

but the one whose good deeds are light

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

wa-ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuhu

will have the Bottomless Pit for his home––

فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ

fa-ummuhu hāwiyatun

what will explain to you what that is?––

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ

wamā adrāka mā hiyah

a blazing fire.

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ

nārun ḥāmiyatun