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ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity -
Surah Al-Qariah
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مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity?
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وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
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يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,[1975]
[1975] The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
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وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.[1976]
[1976] i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
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فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
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فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ
He will be in a pleasant life.
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وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
But as for one whose scales are light,
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فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ
His refuge[1977] will be an abyss.[1978]
[1977] Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace. [1978] i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
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وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ
And what can make you know what that is?
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نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ
It is a Fire, intensely hot.