101:1-6

101:1-6

101:1

The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:

101:2

What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?

101:3

And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?

101:4

(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,

Moths are delicate, light creatures, and seeing them scattered in a violent storm provides a glimpse into the confusion, distress, and helplessness that people will initially experience on the Day of Account. Past memories will seem like a book nearly erased, while new hopes will be vague in a world just emerging on the horizon. However, it will be a perfectly just world, where no good deed will be overlooked and no evil deed will fail to have its compensating value properly assessed.

101:5

And the mountains will be like carded wool.

Mountains are solid structures that seem immovable. However, in the immense cataclysm of the Day of Judgment, they will be scattered like flakes of carded wool. This metaphor illustrates that what we perceive as substantial in this life will be as insubstantial as air in the next world

101:6

Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,

The Good Deeds will be weighed and appraised.

This appraisement will be of the nicest and justest kind:for it

will take into account motives, temptations,

provocations, surrounding conditions, antecedents,

subsequent amends, and all possible connected

circumstances.

Against them, presumably, will be deeds of the opposite kind,

appraised in the same way.

If the good predominates, the judgment will be in the man’s favour, and he will be ushered into a fife of good

pleasure and satisfaction. This will of course be on another

plane. (R).