ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ١
al-qāriʿatu
1. The Striking Calamity -
Surah Al-Qari’ah transliteration
سورة القارعة
Here is Surah Al-Qari’ah (“The Calamity”) in transliteration: each of its 11 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.
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
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٢
mā l-qāriʿatu
2. What is the Striking Calamity?
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ٣
wamā adrāka mā l-qāriʿatu
3. And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ٤
yawma yakūnu l-nāsu kal-farāshi l-mabthūthi
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
watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni l-manfūshi
5. And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.1976
Notes
[1976] i.e., beginning to disintegrate.
فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٦
fa-ammā man thaqulat mawāzīnuhu
6. Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ٧
fahuwa fī ʿīshatin rāḍiyatin
7. He will be in a pleasant life.
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ٨
wa-ammā man khaffat mawāzīnuhu
8. But as for one whose scales are light,
فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ ٩
fa-ummuhu hāwiyatun
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
wamā adrāka mā hiyah
10. And what can make you know what that is?
نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ١١
nārun ḥāmiyatun
11. It is a Fire, intensely hot.
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