Al-Qari'ah

القارعة

11 āyāt · 21 tafsīrs

101:1

الْقَارِعَةُ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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1. The hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

SunnīShāfiʿīverse-level

rciful: [101:1] The Clattering Blow, the Resurrection that will make hearts clatter by its terrors. [101:2] What is the Clattering Blow? — [intended] to emphasise its awesomeness ( mal-qana : both of these [elements] constitute a subject and a predicate, and [together] the predicate of [the firSt] al-qana). [101:3] And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, what the Clattering Blow is? — addi¬ tional emphasis of its awesomeness (the firSt ma is a subject, and what follows it is its predicate; the sec¬ ond ma and its predicate also function together as the second direct object…

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101:2

مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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2. What is this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors?

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:3

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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3. 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.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:4

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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4. On the day when the hearts of people will be struck, they will be like locusts, dispersed here and there.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

SunnīShāfiʿīverse-level

ma and its predicate also function together as the second direct object of [the verb] adra, ‘show’). [101:4] The day ( yawma: that which renders it accusative is [the verb] indicated by al-qana, in other words, [by the implied] taqrau, ‘it clatters’) mankind will be like scattered moths, like a throng of scat¬ tered locuSts surging into each other in confusion, until they are summoned to the Reckoning, [101:5] and the mountains will be like tufts of wool, like carded wool in terms of the lightness with which it floats [in the air] until it comes to settle upon the earth. [101:6] Then as f…

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101:5

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ الْمَنفُوشِ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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5. And the mountains will be like carded wool, in the way they will move from their places with force.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:6

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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6. As for the one whose good deeds will outweigh his evil deeds.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

SunnīShāfiʿīverse-level

th. [101:6] Then as for him whose scales weigh heavy, in that his good deeds outweigh his misdeeds, [101:7] he will enjoy a pleasant life, in Paradise, that is to say, a pleasing one, for he will be pleased with it, that is, it will be pleasing to him; [101:8] but as for him whose scales weigh light, in that his evil deeds outweigh his good ones, [101:10] And what will show you what it is?, that is to say, what the Abyss is. [101:11] It is: A scorching fire, of extremely hot temperature (the ha of hiya is for [consonantal] quies¬ cence, and is retained when reciting without a [subsequent…

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101:7

فَهُوَ فِي عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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7. He will live a contented life which he will achieve in Paradise.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE

SunnīShāfiʿīverse-level

as for him whose scales weigh heavy, in that his good deeds outweigh his misdeeds, [101:7] he will enjoy a pleasant life, in Paradise, that is to say, a pleasing one, for he will be pleased with it, that is, it will be pleasing to him; [101:8] but as for him whose scales weigh light, in that his evil deeds outweigh his good ones, [101:10] And what will show you what it is?, that is to say, what the Abyss is. [101:11] It is: A scorching fire, of extremely hot temperature (the ha of hiya is for [consonantal] quies¬ cence, and is retained when reciting without a [subsequent] pause or with; s…

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101:8

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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8. And as for the one whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:9

فَأُمُّهُ هَاوِيَةٌ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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9. His abode and permanent resting place will be hell on the Day of Judgement.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:10

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا هِيَهْ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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10. O Messenger! What do you know what that is?

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn

101:11

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌ

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Tafsīr Center for Qur'anic Studies · Contemporary

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11. It is the intensely hot hellfire.

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn