Al-Qaari'a

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ۱

{ القارعة } أي القيامة التي تقرع القلوب بأهوالها.

The Clattering Blow, the Resurrection that will make hearts clatter by its terrors.

مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ۲

{ ما القارعة } تهويل لشأنها، وهما مبتدأ وخبر: خبر القارعة.

What is the Clattering Blow? — [intended] to emphasise its awesomeness (mā’l-qāri‘a: both of these [elements] constitute a subject and a predicate, and [together] the predicate of [the first] al-qāri‘a).

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ ۳

{ ومآ أدراك } أعلمك { ما القارعة } زيادة تهويل لها و «ما» الأولى مبتدأ وما بعدها خبره، و «ما» الثانية وخبرها في محل المفعول الثاني لأدري.

And what will show you, [what] will make known to you, what the Clattering Blow is? — additional emphasis of its awesomeness (the first mā is a subject, and what follows it is its predicate; the second mā and its predicate also function together as the second direct object of [the verb] adrā, ‘show’).

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ ۴

{ يوم } ناصبة دل عليه القارعة، أي تقرع { يكون الناس كالفراش المبثوث } كغوغاء الجراد المنتشر يموج بعضهم في بعض للحيرة إلى أن يدعوا للحساب.

The day (yawma: that which renders it accusative is [the verb] indicated by al-qāri‘a, in other words, [by the implied] taqra‘u, ‘it clatters’) mankind will be like scattered moths, like a throng of scattered locusts surging into each other in confusion, until they are summoned to the Reckoning,

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ ۵

{ وتكون الجبال كالعهن المنفوش } كالصوف المندوف في خفة سيرها حتى تستوي مع الأرض.

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.

فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ۶

{ فأما من ثقلت موزينه } بأن رجحت حسناته على سيئاته.

Then as for him whose scales weigh heavy, in that his good deeds outweigh his misdeeds,

فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ ۷

{ فهو فى عيشة راضية } في الجنة، أي ذات رضا بأن يرضاها أي مرضية له.

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;

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ ۸

{ وأما من خفت موزينه } بأن رجحت سيئاته على حسناته.

but as for him whose scales weigh light, in that his evil deeds outweigh his good ones,

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ ۹

{ فأمه } فمسكنه { هاوية }.

his home will be the Abyss.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ ۱۰

{ ومآ أدراك ما هيه } أي ما هاوية.

And what will show you what it is?, that is to say, what the Abyss is.

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ ۱۱

هي { نار حامية } شديدة الحرارة وهاء «هيه» للسكت تثبت وصلا ووقفا. وفي قراءة تحذف وصلا.

It is: A scorching fire, of extremely hot temperature (the hā’ of hiya is for [consonantal] quiescence, and is retained when reciting without a [subsequent] pause or with; some omit it when reciting without a pause).