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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

OH, the sudden calamity!1
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مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

How awesome the sudden calamity!
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

And what could make thee conceive what that sudden calamity will be?
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يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

[It will occur] on the Day when men will be like moths swarming in confusion,
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وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool....
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فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

And then, he whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance
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فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

shall find himself in a happy state of life;
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وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ

whereas he whose weight is light in the balance
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فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ

shall be engulfed by an abyss.2
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ

And what could make thee conceive what that [abyss] will be?
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نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ

A fire hotly burning!3
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