Text of verse 101:3
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٣
Transliteration
wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu
Translation
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
سورة القارعة، الآية ٣
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٣
wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Verse 3 of Surah Al-Qari’ah (101:3), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 600 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
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.
How do you know what the Striking Calamity is?
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
And what makes you realize what the Smiter is?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Judgement?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ
And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?