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Surah Al-Qari’ah

سورة القارعة

Surah 101 11 verses Meccan page 600

Surah Al-Qari’ah (“The Calamity”) is the 101st surah of the Quran. Revealed in Makkah, it has 11 verses and begins in juz 30. Listen to it in full by 400 reciters and download the mp3 you prefer.

Listen by Abdul Rahman Al-SudaisHafs, 0:38. Choose another reciter below.
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Al-Qari’ah by 400 reciters

  1. Abdul Rahman Al-SudaisHafs, murattal عبد الرحمن السديس 0:38
  2. Saad Al-GhamdiHafs, murattal سعد الغامدي 0:49
  3. Mishary Rashid AlafasyHafs, murattal مشاري بن راشد العفاسي 1:02
  4. Maher Al-MuaiqlyHafs, murattal ماهر المعيقلي 0:44
  5. Abdul Basit Abdul SamadHafs, murattal عبد الباسط عبد الصمد 0:55
  6. Saud Al-ShuraimHafs, murattal سعود الشريم 0:34
  7. Ahmed Al-AjmiHafs, murattal أحمد بن علي العجمي 0:42
  8. Fares AbbadHafs, murattal فارس عباد 0:48
  9. Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussaryHafs, murattal محمود خليل الحصري 1:30
  10. Mohamed Siddiq El-MinshawiHafs, murattal محمد صديق المنشاوي 1:03
  11. Yasser Al-DosariHafs, murattal ياسر الدوسري 2:38
  12. Abdullah MatroodHafs, murattal عبد الله المطرود 0:50
  14. Abu Bakr Al-ShatriHafs, murattal أبو بكر الشاطري 0:54
  15. Alzain Mohamed AhmedHafs, murattal الزين محمد أحمد 0:44
  16. Omar Al-KazabriWarsh, murattal عمر القزابري 0:58
  17. Ali JaberHafs, murattal علي جابر 0:41
  18. Ali Al-HudhaifyHafs, murattal علي الحذيفي 0:59
  19. Salah BukhatirHafs, murattal صلاح بو خاطر 0:44
  20. Yassen Al-JazairiWarsh, murattal ياسين الجزائري 0:52
  21. Idris AbkarHafs, murattal إدريس أبكر 0:44
  22. Abdullah Awad Al-JuhanyHafs, murattal عبد الله عواد الجهني 0:40
  23. Abdirashid Ali SufiAs-Susi, murattal عبد الرشيد علي صوفي 0:45
  24. Laayoune El-KouchiWarsh, murattal العيون الكوشي 0:41
  25. Khalid Al-JalilHafs, murattal خالد الجليل 0:47
  26. Abdul Wadood HaneefHafs, murattal عبد الودود حنيف 0:34
  27. Mohamed El-BarakHafs, murattal محمد البراك 0:48
  28. Mahmoud Ali Al-BannaHafs, murattal محمود علي البنا 0:58
  29. Nasser Al-QatamiHafs, murattal ناصر القطامي 2:30
  30. TH The Holy Quran in FrenchHafs, murattal القرآن الكريم باللغة الفرنسية 0:32
  31. Ahmad SaudHafs, murattal أحمد سعود 1:08
  32. Khalifa Al-TunaijiHafs, murattal خليفة الطنيجي 0:52
  33. Hassan SalehHafs, murattal حسن صالح 0:47
  34. Abdullah ibn Ali BasfarHafs, murattal عبد الله بن علي بصفر 0:49
  35. Muhammad AyyubHafs, murattal محمد أيوب 1:08
  36. Mustafa Al LahouniHafs, murattal مصطفى اللاهوني 0:59
  37. Adil Al-KalbaniHafs, murattal عادل الكلباني 0:43
  38. Muhammad JibreelHafs, murattal محمد جبريل 0:58
  39. Mohamed TablawiHafs, murattal محمد محمود الطبلاوي 1:27
  40. Muhammad Al-Aalim Al-DokaliQalun, murattal محمد العالم الدوكالي 0:44
  41. Muhammad Al-MohaisanyHafs, murattal محمد بن سليمان المحيسني 0:35

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Surah Al-Qari’ah for children, with repetition

Teaching recitations (mushaf mu’allim): each verse is recited and then repeated, to learn it by heart.

Teaching Quran (mushaf mu’allim)
  1. Saad Al-GhamdiHafs, teaching (mu’allim) سعد الغامدي 1:46
  2. Mishary Rashid AlafasyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) مشاري بن راشد العفاسي 1:49
  3. Maher Al-MuaiqlyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) ماهر المعيقلي 1:58
  4. Mahmoud Khalil Al-HussaryHafs, teaching (mu’allim) محمود خليل الحصري 1:57
  5. Mohamed Siddiq El-MinshawiHafs, teaching (mu’allim) محمد صديق المنشاوي 1:56
  6. Ali Al-HudhaifyHafs, teaching (mu’allim) علي الحذيفي 2:36

The verses of the surah

Full text in Uthmani script, with vowel marks (tashkeel).

Read Surah Al-Qari’ah in Arabic and English

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ۝١ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ۝٢ وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ۝٣ يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ۝٤ وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ۝٥ فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ۝٦ فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ۝٧ وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ۝٨ فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ۝٩ وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ۝١٠ نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ۝١١

Its virtues

All its virtues and hadiths

No specific hadith is reported about the virtues of Surah Al-Qari’ah; its established merit is that it belongs to the Mufassal by which the Prophet ﷺ was favoured over the other prophets. It strikes the hearts by recalling the terrors of the Day of Resurrection, affirms the recompense of deeds and describes the state of the happy and the wretched according to their scales.

  • A surah of the Mufassal
  • It strikes the hearts to recall the Resurrection

Other ways to read the surah

In transliteration, word by word or with tajweed colours.

Surah Al-Qari’ah at a glance

Name

The Surah takes its name from its first word al-qari'ah. This is not only a name but also the title of its subject matter, for the Surah is devoted to the subject of the Resurrection.

Period of Revelation

There is no dispute about this surah being a Makki Surah. Its contents show that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed at Makkah.

Theme and Subject Matter

Its theme is Resurrection and the Hereafter. At the outset, the people have been alerted and alarmed with: "The Great Disaster! What is the Great Disaster? And what do you know what the Great Disaster is?" After preparing the listeners for the news of the dreadful calamity, the Resurrection has been depicted before them in two sentences, saying that on that Day people will be running about in confusion and bewilderment like many scattered moths around a light, and the mountains uprooted, will fly about like carded wool. Then it has been said that when Allah's Court is established in the Hereafter and the people are called upon to account for their deeds, the people whose good deeds are found to be heavier than their evil deeds, will be blessed with bliss and happiness, and the people whose good deeds are found to be lighter than their evil deeds, will be cast into the deep pit full of burning fire.

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