Al-Qaria

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Surat Al-Qaria (Arabic: سورة القارعة ) (The Clatterer, The Stunning Blow, or The Disaster) is the 101st sura of the Qur'an with 11 ayat.

Like many sura, the Quran here introduces a term (Al-Qaria, meaning "the Clatterer"), and asks itself (and the reader) what it means: "The Clatterer! What is the Clatterer? And what shall teach thee what is the Clatterer?". The answer is said to be a specific day, which has not yet come to pass. On that day "men will be like scattered moths, and the mountains shall be like plucked wool". This day is presumably the Day of Judgment. The image is of chaos and collapse, both of the social order of humanity, and of the cosmological order of the universe itself, as in the Qur'an's usage, the mountains are the pillars separating Heaven and Earth.

The sura continues with this theme of balance and unbalance, by proclaiming that those who have worked to keep the right order of things will be rewarded, and those who have ignored the order of the universe (and presumably those who have intentionally undermined it) shall be cast into "the womb of the Pit". The sura ends as it began, asking about how one will learn the meaning of the word "the Pit" - which is explained to be known in "the blazing fire" of Hell.

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