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Chapter 101

The Catastropheal-Qāriʿah ( القارعة )

11 verses • revealed at Meccan

»The surah that opens with this single world, al-Qāriʿah, meaning The Catastrophe, for that is the repeated sound that shall resound through all the earth as it is being pulverized in the cataclysm at the end of time, levelled utterly for the Resurrection Day and the ultimate Judgment of every human soul. It takes its name from “the catastrophe” (al-qāriʿah) mentioned in verse 1 ff. The surah gives some scenes from the Resurrection and Judgement.«

The surah is also known as The Calamity, The Clatterer, The Crashing Blow, The Day of Noise and Clamour, The Disaster, The Great Calamity, The Great Pounding, The Smiter, The Stunning (Blow)

بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ

Mir Ahmed Ali: In the name of God,, the Beneficent,, the Merciful

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القارِعَةُ

Mir Ahmed Ali

The1 Striking Calamity!
  • ‘Qariah’, i.e., a tremendously clamorous striking noise which will accompany the inauguration of the great calamity, the earth will suffer at the dawn of the Day of Judgment when the whole of the present order of the world will undergo a thorough change giving place to a totally new atmosphere of a new state of the existence of a new world of a new order of realities with total wiping out of false appearances and false values.