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Tafsir of Surah Al-Qari'ah (101) — The Calamity · القارعة
Meccan surah, 11 ayat. Read the whole surah
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Al-Qari'ah 101:1
ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
The Striking Calamity
Tafsir 101:1
The hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors.
Al-Qari'ah 101:2
مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
What is the Striking Calamity
Tafsir 101:2
What is this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors?
Al-Qari'ah 101:3
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلۡقَارِعَةُ
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity
Tafsir 101:3
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.
Al-Qari'ah 101:4
يَوۡمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلۡفَرَاشِ ٱلۡمَبۡثُوثِ
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed
Tafsir 101:4
On the day when the hearts of people will be struck, they will be like locusts, dispersed here and there.
Al-Qari'ah 101:5
وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٱلۡمَنفُوشِ
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up
Tafsir 101:5
And the mountains will be like carded wool, in the way they will move from their places with force.
Al-Qari'ah 101:6
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds]
Tafsir 101:6
As for the one whose good deeds will outweigh his evil deeds.
Al-Qari'ah 101:7
فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٖ رَّاضِيَةٖ
He will be in a pleasant life
Tafsir 101:7
He will live a contented life which he will achieve in Paradise.
Al-Qari'ah 101:8
وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَفَّتۡ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
But as for one whose scales are light
Tafsir 101:8
And as for the one whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds.
Al-Qari'ah 101:9
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٞ
His refuge will be an abyss
Tafsir 101:9
His abode and permanent resting place will be hell on the Day of Judgement.
Al-Qari'ah 101:10
وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهۡ
And what can make you know what that is
Tafsir 101:10
O Messenger! What do you know what that is?
Al-Qari'ah 101:11
نَارٌ حَامِيَةُۢ
It is a Fire, intensely hot
Tafsir 101:11
It is the intensely hot hellfire.
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