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Surah 101
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Eleven verses on a striking day this surah is named after, when people are like scattered moths and the mountains like carded wool. Scales decide what follows: a pleasing life for the one whose scales are heavy, and for the one whose scales are light the four renderings part company - three name a pit of fire, and Pickthall renders it as a mother bereft.
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)al-qaari'ah
DIN 31635al-qāriʿatu
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The Shocker.
The Calamity
The smiting
THE BLOW
The striking
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مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)maa l-qaari'ah
DIN 31635mā l-qāriʿatu
What is the Shocker?
What is the Calamity
What is the smiting
what is the Blow
What is the striking
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa adraaka maa l-qaari'ah
DIN 31635wamā ʾadrāka mā l-qāriʿatu
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What will explain to you what the Shocker is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is
And what shall make thee know what the smiting is
Who shall teach thee what the Blow is
And what shall make thee to understand how terrible the striking will be
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يَوْمَ يَكُونُ ٱلنَّاسُ كَٱلْفَرَاشِ ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ
Easy-read (simplified)yawma yakoonu n-naasu kal-faraashi l-mabthooth
DIN 31635yawma yakūnu n-nāsu kal-farāši l-mabṯūṯi
The Day when the people will be like scattered moths.
A day wherein mankind will be as thickly-scattered moths
The day when men shall be like scattered moths
The Day when men shall be like scattered moths
On that day men shall be like moths scattered abroad
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وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ
Easy-read (simplified)watakoonu l-jibaalu kal-'ihni l-manfoosh
DIN 31635watakūnu l-ǧibālu kal-ʿihni l-manfūši
And the mountains will be like tufted wool.
And the mountains will become as carded wool
and the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool
And the mountains shall be like flocks of carded wool
and the mountains shall become like carded wool of various colours driven by the wind
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فَأَمَّا مَن ثَقُلَتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)fa'ammaa man thaqulat mawaazeenuh
DIN 31635faʾammā man ṯaqulat mawāzīnuhu
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As for he whose scales are heavy.
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good works)
And as for him whose balance is heavy
Then as to him whose balances are heavy
Moreover he whose balance shall be heavy with good works
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فَهُوَ فِى عِيشَةٍ رَّاضِيَةٍ
Easy-read (simplified)fahuwa fee 'eeshatin raadiyah
DIN 31635fahuwa fī ʿīšatin rāḍiyatin
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He will be in a pleasant life.
He will live a pleasant life
he shall be in a well-pleasing life
his shall be a life that shall please him well
shall lead a pleasing life
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وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَٰزِينُهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)wa'ammaa man khaffat mawaazeenuh
DIN 31635waʾammā man ḫaffat mawāzīnuhu
But as for he whose scales are light.
But as for him whose scales are light
But as for him whose balance is light
And as to him whose balances are light
But as to him whose balance shall be light
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فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ
Easy-read (simplified)fa'ummuhu haawiyah
DIN 31635faʾummuhu hāwiyatun
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His home is the Abyss.
A bereft and Hungry One will be his mother
his dwelling shall be the pit of hell
his dwelling-place shall be the pit
his dwelling shall be the pit of hell
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا هِيَهْ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa adraaka maa hiyah
DIN 31635wamā ʾadrāka mā hiyah
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Do you know what it is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what she is
And who shall make thee know what it is
And who shall teach thee what the pit (El-Hawiya) is
What shall make thee to understand how frightful the pit of hell is
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نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ
Easy-read (simplified)naarun haamiyah
DIN 31635nārun ḥāmiyatun
A Raging Fire.
Raging Fire
a burning fire
A raging fire
It is a burning fire
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Surah 102
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Eight verses on a rivalry over increase that occupies people until they reach the graves - the competition this surah is named for. It repeats that they will come to know, and it closes on being questioned about pleasure.
أَلْهَىٰكُمُ ٱلتَّكَاثُرُ
Easy-read (simplified)alhaakumu t-takaathur
DIN 31635ʾalhākumu t-takāṯuru
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Abundance distracts you.
Rivalry in worldly increase distracteth you
The contention about numbers deludes you
THE DESIRE of increasing riches occupieth you
The emulous desire of multiplying riches and children employeth you
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حَتَّىٰ زُرْتُمُ ٱلْمَقَابِرَ
Easy-read (simplified)hattaa zurtumu l-maqaabir
DIN 31635ḥattā zurtumu l-maqābira
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Until you visit the graveyards.
Until ye come to the graves
till ye visit the tombs
Till ye come to the grave
until ye visit the graves
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كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)kallaa sawfa ta'lamoon
DIN 31635kallā sawfa taʿlamūna
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Indeed, you will know.
Nay, but ye will come to know
Not so! In the end ye shall know
Nay! but in the end ye shall know
By no means should ye thus employ your time: Hereafter shall ye know your folly
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ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
Easy-read (simplified)thumma kallaa sawfa ta'lamoon
DIN 31635ṯumma kallā sawfa taʿlamūna
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Certainly, you will know.
Nay, but ye will come to know
And again not so! In the end ye shall know
Nay! once more,in the end ye shall know your folly
Again, by no means: Hereafter shall ye know your folly
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كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Easy-read (simplified)kallaa law ta'lamoona 'ilma l-yaqeen
DIN 31635kallā law taʿlamūna ʿilma l-yaqīni
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If you knew with knowledge of certainty.
Nay, would that ye knew (now) with a sure knowledge
Not so! Did ye but know with certain knowledge
Nay! would that ye knew it with knowledge of certainty
By no means: If ye knew the consequence hereof with certainty of knowledge, ye would not act thus
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لَتَرَوُنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ
Easy-read (simplified)latarawunna l-jaheem
DIN 31635latarawunna l-ǧaḥīma
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You would see the Inferno.
For ye will behold hell-fire
Ye shall surely see hell
Surely ye shall see hell-fire
Verily ye shall see hell
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ثُمَّ لَتَرَوُنَّهَا عَيْنَ ٱلْيَقِينِ
Easy-read (simplified)thumma latarawunnahaa 'ayna l-yaqeen
DIN 31635ṯumma latarawunnahā ʿayna l-yaqīni
Then you will see it with the eye of certainty.
Aye, ye will behold it with sure vision
And again ye shall surely see it with an eye of certainty
Then shall ye surely see it with the eye of certainty
Again, ye shall surely see it with the eye of certainty
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ثُمَّ لَتُسْـَٔلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ
Easy-read (simplified)thumma latus'alunna yawma'idhin 'ani n-na'eem
DIN 31635ṯumma latusʾalunna yawmaʾiḏin ʿani n-naʿīmi
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Then, on that Day, you will be questioned about the Bliss.
Then, on that day, ye will be asked concerning pleasure
Then ye shall surely be asked about pleasure
Then shall ye on that day be taken to task concerning pleasures
Then shall ye be examined, on that day, concerning the pleasures with which ye have amused yourselves in this life
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Surah 103
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Three verses and fourteen words, the second fewest words of any surah in this canon: an oath, then that man is in loss, except those who believe, do right, and urge truth and patience on one another.
وَٱلْعَصْرِ
Easy-read (simplified)wal-'asr
DIN 31635wal-ʿaṣri
By Time.
By the declining day
By the afternoon
I SWEAR by the declining day
By the afternoon
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إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ
Easy-read (simplified)inna l-'insaana lafee khusr
DIN 31635ʾinna l-ʾinsāna lafī ḫusrin
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The human being is in loss.
Lo! man is a state of loss
verily, man is in loss
Verily, man's lot is cast amid destruction
verily man employeth himself in that which will prove of loss
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إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ
Easy-read (simplified)illaa lladheena aamanoo wa'amiloo s-saalihaati watawaasaw bil-haqqi watawaasaw bis-sabr
DIN 31635ʾillā llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti watawāṣaw bil-ḥaqqi watawāṣaw biṣ-ṣabri
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Except those who believe, and do good works, and encourage truth, and recommend patience.
Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance
save those who believe and do right, and bid each other be true, and bid each other be patient
Save those who believe and do the things which be right, and enjoin truth and enjoin stedfastness on each other
Except those who believe, and do that which is right; and who mutually recommend the truth, and mutually recommend perseverance unto each other
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Surah 104
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Nine verses against one figure: a slanderer who gathers wealth and counts it and thinks it will make him last, and the fire that closes over him in outstretched columns. It takes its name from the slander at verse 1.
وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ
Easy-read (simplified)waylun likulli humazatin lumazah
DIN 31635waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin
Woe to every slanderer backbiter.
Woe unto every slandering traducer
Woe to every slanderous backbiter
Woe to every BACKBITER, Defamer
Woe unto every slanderer, and backbiter
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ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)alladhee jama'a maalan wa'addadah
DIN 31635allaḏī ǧamaʿa mālan waʿaddadahu
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Who gathers wealth and counts it over.
Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it
who collects wealth and counts it
Who amasseth wealth and storeth it against the future
Who heapeth up riches, and prepareth the same for the time to come
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يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)yahsabu anna maalahu akhladah
DIN 31635yaḥsabu ʾanna mālahu ʾaḫladahu
Thinking that his wealth has made him immortal.
He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal
He thinks that his wealth can immortalize him
He thinketh surely that his wealth shall be with him for ever
He thinketh that his riches will render him immortal
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كَلَّا لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ
Easy-read (simplified)kallaa layunbadhanna fee l-hutamah
DIN 31635kallā layunbaḏanna fī l-ḥuṭamati
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By no means. He will be thrown into the Crusher.
Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One
Not so! he shall be hurled into ElHutamah
Nay! for verily he shall be flung into the Crushing Fire
By no means. He shall surely be cast into al Hotama
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa adraaka maa l-hutamah
DIN 31635wamā ʾadrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu
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And what will make you realize what the Crusher is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Consuming One is
And what shall make thee understand what ElHutamah is
And who shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is
And what shall cause thee to understand what al Hotama is
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نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)naaru llaahi l-mooqadah
DIN 31635nāru llāhi l-mūqadatu
God's kindled Fire.
(It is) the fire of Allah, kindled
the fire of God kindled
It is God's kindled fire
It is the kindled fire of God
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ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ
Easy-read (simplified)allatee tattali'u 'alaa l-'af'idah
DIN 31635allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-ʾafʾidati
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That laps to the hearts.
Which leapeth up over the hearts (of men)
which rises above the hearts
Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned
which shall mount above the hearts of those who shall be cast therein
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إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ
Easy-read (simplified)innahaa 'alayhim mu'sadah
DIN 31635ʾinnahā ʿalayhim muʾṣadatun
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It closes in on them.
Lo! it is closed in on them
Verily, it is an archway over them
It shall verily rise over them like a vault
Verily it shall be as an arched vault above them
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فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ
Easy-read (simplified)fee 'amadin mumaddadah
DIN 31635fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin
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In extended columns.
In outstretched columns
on long-drawn columns
On outstretched columns
on columns of vast extent
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Surah 105
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Five verses recalling what was done to the owners of the elephant, which this surah is named for: a plan brought to nothing, birds, stones of baked clay, and an end like stubble eaten down.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Easy-read (simplified)alam tara kayfa fa'ala rabbuka bi'ashaabi l-feel
DIN 31635ʾalam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʾaṣḥābi l-fīli
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant?
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant
Hast thou not seen what thy Lord did with the fellows of the elephant
HAST thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the army of the ELEPHANT
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the masters of the elephant
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