Surah Al-Qaari'a (101) — Ayah 1
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
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(Ayah 1){ اَلْقَارِعَةُ:’’قَرَعَ يَقْرَعُ قَرْعًا‘‘} (F) To knock on the door with intensity. Like {’’ اَلْقَارِعَةُ ‘‘ ’’ الطَّاۤمَّةُ ، الصَّاۤخَّةُ ، اَلْحَاۤقَّةُ ، الْغَاشِيَةِ ‘‘} and {’’ الْوَاقِعَةُ ‘‘ }, it is one of the names of the Day of Judgment, because the sound of the trumpet will strike the ears, hearts, and everything else with intensity, to the extent that due to this sound, the earth and the mountains will collide with each other, as He said: « وَ حُمِلَتِ الْاَرْضُ وَ الْجِبَالُ فَدُكَّتَا دَكَّةً وَّاحِدَةً » [ الحآقۃ : ۱۴ ] "And the earth and the mountains will be lifted up, and then both will be made to collide with a single collision."
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Tafsir Taiseer ul-Quran — Maulana Abdul Rahman Kilani
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[1] ﴿الْقَارِعَةُ﴾ ﴿قرع﴾ means to strike one thing against another in such a way that it produces a sound, and ﴿قَرَعَ الْبَاب﴾ means he knocked on the door, and ﴿قارِعَةٌ﴾ means the one that rattles. According to Ibn al-Faris, anything that descends upon a person with intensity is called ﴿قارِعَةٌ﴾ (Maqayis al-Lughah), that is, a great calamity or a heavy disaster that throws a person into panic, and what is meant here is the Day of Judgment.
