Al-Mukhtasar · Tafsir · in English
القارعة
Al-Qari'ah
The Calamity · Meccan · 11 ayahs
The hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors.
What is this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors?
101:3Page 600
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ ٣
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
O Messenger! And what do you know of this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors? It is the Day of Judgement.
101:4Page 600
يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ ٤
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,1
On the day when the hearts of people will be struck, they will be like locusts, dispersed here and there.
101:5Page 600
وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ ٥
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1
And the mountains will be like carded wool, in the way they will move from their places with force.
101:6Page 600
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
As for the one whose good deeds will outweigh his evil deeds.
He will live a contented life which he will achieve in Paradise.
And as for the one whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds.
His abode and permanent resting place will be hell on the Day of Judgement.
O Messenger! What do you know what that is?
It is the intensely hot hellfire.
Text: Quranic Universal Library (Tarteel), via spa5k/tafsir_api (MIT), at a fixed version. The ayahs: Quran Foundation. Sources and licences