Surah Az-Zalzalah (The Earthquake)
سُورَةُ الزَّلۡزَلَةِ · Surah 99 · Medinan · 8 verses
Themes: Day of Judgment, atom's weight.
Topics in Surah Az-Zalzalah
Study guides that discuss verses of this surah, most connected first.
- Loss (Khusran) (8 verses)
- The Last Day (Al-Yawm al-Akhir) (7 verses)
- Deeds (Amal) (6 verses)
- Divine Revelation (Wahy) (5 verses)
- Striving (Sa'y) (3 verses)
- The Earth (Ard) (2 verses)
- Voluntary Acts (Tatawwu) (2 verses)
- Reward (Thawab) (2 verses)
- Ruling (Hukm) (2 verses)
- Fear (Khawf) (2 verses)
- Usury (Riba) (2 verses)
- Seeing Allah (Ru'yah) (2 verses)
- Anguish (Ghamm) (2 verses)
- The Unseen (Ghayb) (2 verses)
- The Heart (Qalb) (2 verses)
Read Surah Az-Zalzalah with English translation
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99:1
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا
When the earth is shaken violently in its [last] quaking,
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99:2
وَأَخْرَجَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا
when the earth throws out its burdens,
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99:3
وَقَالَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا لَهَا
when man cries, ‘What is happening to it?’;
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99:4
يَوْمَئِذٍۢ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا
on that Day, it will tell all
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99:5
بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَىٰ لَهَا
because your Lord will inspire it [to do so].
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99:6
يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَصْدُرُ ٱلنَّاسُ أَشْتَاتًۭا لِّيُرَوْا۟ أَعْمَٰلَهُمْ
On that Day, people will come forward in separate groups to be shown their deeds:
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99:7
فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًۭا يَرَهُۥ
whoever has done an atom’s-weight of good will see it,
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99:8
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍۢ شَرًّۭا يَرَهُۥ
but whoever has done an atom’s-weight of evil will see that.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.