1. The Crashing Blow!

2. What is the Crashing Blow? This is the Day of Rising, which will crush the hearts with its terrors. It is repeated to emphasise its dreadfulness.

3. What will convey to you what the Crashing Blow is? This question is to emphasize further the terrible nature of that Day.

4. It is the Day when mankind will be crushed and dispersed like scattered moths – confused locusts, surging into one another out of bewilderment at being summoned for the Reckoning –

5. …and the mountains like insubstantial tufts of coloured wool.

6. As for him whose balance is heavy – him whose good actions outweigh his evil actions,

7. …he will have a most pleasant life in the Garden. He will be delighted with it.

8. But as for him whose balance is light – him whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds,

9. …his motherland (dwelling-place) is Hawiya.

10. And what will convey to you what that is?

11. A raging Fire!