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Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qari'ah Verse 3

Al-Qari'ah [101]: 3 ~ English Qur'an Word By Word and Multi Tafseer

وَمَآ اَدْرٰىكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ ۗ (القارعة : ١٠١)

wamā
وَمَآ
And what
adrāka
أَدْرَىٰكَ
will make you know
مَا
what
l-qāriʿatu
ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
(is) the Striking Calamity?

Transliteration:

Wa maa adraaka mal qaari'ah (QS. al-Q̈āriʿah:3)

English / Sahih Translation:

And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity? (QS. Al-Qari'ah, ayah 3)

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And what may let you know what the Striking Event is?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

And what will make you realize what the Striking Disaster is?

Ruwwad Translation Center

How do you know what the Striking Calamity is?

A. J. Arberry

And what shall teach thee what is the Clatterer?

Abdul Haleem

What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

What shall Make thee know that which the Striking is?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?

Abul Ala Maududi

And what do you know what the Calamity is?

Ahmed Ali

How will you comprehend what the startling calamity is? --

Ahmed Raza Khan

And what have you understood, what the event that terrifies the hearts is!

Ali Quli Qarai

What will show you what is the Catastrophe?

Ali Ünal

What enables you to perceive what the sudden, mighty strike is?

Amatul Rahman Omar

What should make you know how very severe and destructive the Disastrous Rattling is!

English Literal

And what made you know/informed you what the resurrection/disaster/calamity (is)?

Faridul Haque

And what have you understood, what the event that terrifies the hearts is!

Hamid S. Aziz

And what will convey to you what the calamity is?

Hilali & Khan

And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

The day wherein men will be as scattered moths,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Calamity is!

Muhammad Sarwar

Would that you knew what the crash is!

Qaribullah & Darwish

What shall let you know what the Clatterer is!

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And what will make you know what Al-Qari`ah is

Wahiduddin Khan

Would that you knew what the Clatterer is!

Talal Itani

What will explain to you what the Shocker is?

Tafsir jalalayn

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

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

And what will make you know what Al-Qariah is?

Then He explains this by saying,

يَوْمَ يَكُونُ النَّاسُ كَالْفَرَاشِ الْمَبْثُوثِ