Al-Qâri‘ah

الْقَارِعَةُ ١

The high-scale jolt rocking (the whole universe of the heavens and the earth) and thunder!

مَا الْقَارِعَةُ ٢

And what is that high-scale jolt rocking (everything) and that thunder?

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ ٣

And what have you made out what the high-scale jolt and thunder implies?

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ ٤

(It implies) the Day of Resurrection when (the whole of) mankind will become like scattered moths,

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ ٥

And the mountains will be like multicoloured carded wool.

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ ٦

So he whose scales of deeds in the balance will be heavy,

فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ٧

He will be in luxury and delight.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ ٨

But as for him whose scales of deeds in the balance will be light,

فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ ٩

His abode will be Hawiya (a pit in Hell)!

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ ١٠

And what have you made out what that (Hawiya) is?

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ ١١

It is (an extremely deep pit of) the fiercely Blazing Fire (of Hell).