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 ٱلْقَارِعَةُ
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al-qāriʿatu
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The Striking Disaster
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The Striking Calamity!
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
OH, the sudden calamity
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
The Calamity
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour
Mustafa Khattab 2018
The Striking Disaster!
Safi Kaskas 2025
The striking calamity:
Wahiduddin Khan
The Clatterer
Shakir
The terrible calamity
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
The Disaster!
T.B.Irving
The stunning [blow]!
Abdul Hye
The striking Hour (Qari’ah, the Day of Calamity)!
Saeed Malik
The Qari’ah
The Study Quran
The calamity
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
The Striking Calamity.
Talal Itani (2012)
The Shocker
Dr. Kamal Omar
Al-Qariah (The great Calamity)
M. Farook Malik
The Qariah
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
The Smiter
Muhammad Sarwar
The (unprecedented) crash
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
The Striking Event
Shabbir Ahmed
The Catastrophe
Dr. Munir Munshey
That awesome (stunning) disaster
Syed Vickar Ahamed
The (Day) of Noise and Chaos (of the Calamity)
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
The Striking Calamity
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
The Shocker.
Abdel Haleem
The Crashing Blow
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
The Striking
Ahmed Ali
THE STARTLING CALAMITY
Aisha Bewley
The Crashing Blow!
Ali Ãœnal
The sudden, mighty strike
Ali Quli Qara'i
The Catastrophe
Hamid S. Aziz
The calamity
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
The pounding disaster.
Bilal Muhammad 2018
The Disaster
Musharraf Hussain
The Sudden Calamity!
Maududi
The Calamity
Mohammad Shafi
The Sudden Calamity
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
The frightening calamity
Rashad Khalifa
The Shocker
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
The Clatterer (the Day of Judgement)
Maulana Muhammad Ali
The calamity
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
The resurrection/disaster/calamity
Bijan Moeinian
The Great Disaster
Faridul Haque
The event that terrifies the hearts
Sher Ali
The Great Calamity
Edip Yuksel
The Shocker.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
The high-scale jolt rocking (the whole universe of the heavens and the earth) and thunder
Amatul Rahman Omar
The Disastrous Rattling (of this life as seen in warfare is sure to visit the world)
Hilali - Khan
Al-Qariah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
The Clatterer
George Sale
The striking
Edward Henry Palmer
The smiting
John Medows Rodwell
THE BLOW
N J Dawood 2014
THE DISASTER
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
The catastrophe (El'Qaariä')*!
Fode Drame
The loud thunder strike.
MunirMezyed2023
The Calamity!
Mustaqim
The Calamity.
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
The Shocking Event!
Linda "iLham" Barto
The calamity!
Irving/Hegab
The stunning [blow]!
Samy Mahdy
The Bashing, Disaster.
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
The striker!
Qarai
The Catastrophe!
Thomas Cleary
The Calamity!
Ahmed Hulusi
The Qaria!
Mubarakpuri
Al-Qari`ah.
A. S. Mohamed
The Striking Calamity!
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
The terrible disaster
[Al-Muntakhab]
The Big Event of the violent collision of all celestial bodies;
Mir Aneesuddin
The calamity.
The Wise Quran Project
The sudden calamity.
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
The Shocker
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
The Shocker
OLD Word by Word
The Striking Calamity
Transliteration
AlqariAAatu