ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ١
1. The Striking Calamity -
Memorize Surah Al-Qari’ah
سورة القارعة
Surah Al-Qari’ah has 11 verses on one page of the Madinah mushaf (page 600), in juz 30. It is learned in a single portion: listen to it, repeat it, hide it bit by bit, then recite it from memory.
Memorization plan for Surah Al-Qari’ah
A single portion. Tap a portion to practise it; its status stays in this browser.
One portion: a few sessions are enough, then spaced reviews.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٢
2. What is the Striking Calamity?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٣
3. And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ٤
4. It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,1975
Notes
[1975] The people will be as such after having been expelled from their graves.
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ ٥
5. And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1976
Notes
[1976] i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦
6. Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ٧
7. He will be in a pleasant life.
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٨
8. But as for one whose scales are light,
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ ٩
9. His refuge1977 will be an abyss.1978
Notes
[1977] Literally, "mother" (a man's original refuge) , which will envelop him as in an embrace.
[1978] i.e., the pit of Hellfire.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ١٠
10. And what can make you know what that is?
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ١١
11. It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Verses not to confuse
4 verses of Surah Al-Qari’ah resemble other verses of the Quran: a classic trap when reciting from memory. The closest ones:
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Al-Qari’ah 101:7
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
Al-Haqqah 69:21فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
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Al-Qari’ah 101:5
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Al-Ma’arij 70:9وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ
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Al-Qari’ah 101:3
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Al-Haqqah 69:3وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحَآقَّةُ
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Al-Qari’ah 101:10
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
At-Tariq 86:2وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ
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