Tafseer of The Calamity · Al-Qaari'a · 101:3
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
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And His statement: وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْقَارِعَةُ (And what made you know what the Striking Calamity is?) — Here the Exalted — praise be to Him — says to His Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ: What made you realize, O Muḥammad, what the Striking Calamity (al-qāriʿah) is?
