Meccan, and its verses are 11 [revealed after Quraysh] 'In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful'.

The term ' ظرف' is in the accusative case due to an implied subject indicated by ' القارعة', meaning: it strikes on the Day when the people will be like scattered moths. It compares them to moths in their multitude, dispersal, weakness, and humiliation, and their fluttering towards the caller from every direction, just as moths flutter towards fire. Jarir said:

'Indeed, Al-Farazdaq, as I know, and his people are like moths that surround the fire of the burning.' [[This is from Jarir. 'As I know' means: as long as I know, or in my knowledge. This is fair in dialogue. Moth refers to what flutters towards the lamp, and perhaps dies in it due to its foolishness. The burning refers to one warmed by fire: he likened them to it in humiliation, ignorance, and intrusiveness towards others, just as the moth surrounds the head of the burning and hovers around it. And perhaps it throws itself into the fire, just like it.]] And in their sayings: weaker than a moth, more humiliated and more ignorant. It is called a moth due to its fluttering and dispersal. The mountains are likened to ' العهن', which is dyed wool, because they have colors, and to the fluffed wool, due to the scattering of its parts.

Ibn Mas'ud read: like wool. The scales: plural of ' ميزان', which is the deed that has weight and significance with Allah.

Or it is the plural of ' ميزان'. Its heaviness: its weightiness. From it is the saying of Abu Bakr to Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, in his advice to him:

'Indeed, the scales of those whose scales are heavy on the Day of Resurrection are heavy due to their following the truth and its weight in this world. And it is right for a scale in which only good deeds are placed to be heavy. And indeed, the scales of those whose scales are light are light due to their following falsehood and its lightness in this world. And it is right for a scale in which only bad deeds are placed to be light.' [[This is disconnected with a weak chain from Lyth. He is Ibn Abu Salim. It was narrated by Ibn Abu Shaybah and Abu Nu'aym in Al-Hilyah in the biography of Abu Bakr from the narration of Ismail ibn Abu Khalid from Zayd ibn Al-Harith: 'When Abu Bakr was near death, he sent for Umar. When he came, he said to him: I advise you with an advice, indeed Allah has a right at night that He does not accept in the day, and a right in the day that He does not accept at night. And none of us has a supererogatory prayer until he fulfills the obligatory prayer. Indeed, the scales of those whose scales are heavy on the Day of Resurrection are heavy due to their following the truth in this world and its weight upon them. And it is right for a scale in which only the truth is placed to be heavy - the hadith.' ]] 'So his mother is a pit from their saying when they invoke destruction upon a man.' [[Mahamud said: 'When they invoke destruction upon a man, they say: His mother has fallen... etc.' Ahmad said: and the first is more apparent, for it is a known saying like their saying, 'May his mother be cursed.' ]]: His mother has fallen, because when he falls, meaning he collapses and perishes, his mother has fallen in grief and sorrow. He said:

'His mother has fallen, what sends the morning forth in the morning... and what returns the night when it comes back.' [[This is from Ka'b in the elegy of his brother. 'His mother has fallen' is a supplication not meant to occur but to express astonishment. 'What' is the subject, and what follows it is the predicate.

And the meaning is: what sends him forth in the morning, and what returns him at night, as it was narrated: and what returns the night, meaning: it is something great.

And from it is a stripped implication, meaning: he would go out seeking a raid and return at night victorious. And what is in both places of questioning means astonishment and magnification. And ascribing the action to morning and night is metaphorical.]]

So it is as if it is said. And as for he whose scales are light, he has certainly perished. And it is said, 'Hawiyah' is one of the names of the Fire. It is as if it is a deep fire, for the people of the Fire have a far descent in it, as it has been narrated: 'It falls in it for seventy years.' This is part of a hadith reported by Al-Tirmidhi in the description of Hell from the narration of Al-Hasan from Utbah ibn Ghazwan, who said that the Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, said: 'Indeed, a great rock is thrown from the edge of Hell and it falls in it for seventy years without reaching its bottom.' And it is said to be strange; we do not know that Al-Hasan heard from Utbah, and this is interrupted. Muslim narrated it from the narration of Utbah with the wording: 'And it was mentioned to us,' and it is in the ruling of being elevated. Al-Hakim narrated from the route of Isa ibn Talhah from Abu Hurairah, elevated: 'Indeed, a man speaks a word that he sees no harm in, and he falls into the Fire for seventy years.' Its origin is in Al-Bukhari from the narration of Abu Salih from Abu Hurairah with the wording: 'He falls into Hell.' And Al-Bazzar narrated from the route of Mujalid from Al-Sha'bi from Masruq from Ibn Mas'ud, elevated, that a judge is brought on the Day of Resurrection and is stopped at the edge of Hell. If he is commanded to be pushed, he falls into it for seventy years.' So his abode is the Fire. And it is said that the abode is 'Um,' by analogy, because the mother is the abode of the child and its refuge. And from Qatadah: 'So his mother is Hawiyah,' meaning his head is in the depths of Hell, for he is thrown into it upside down. The pronoun 'He' refers to the calamity indicated by the saying: 'His mother is Hawiyah' in the first interpretation. Or the pronoun 'Hawiyah' and the 'He' is for pause, and if the reader connects it, he omits it. And it is said: It is right not to include it so that it does not fall due to inclusion, because it is established in the Mushaf. It has been permitted to affirm it when connected. From the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him: 'Whoever recites Surah Al-Qari'ah, Allah will make his scales heavy on the Day of Resurrection.' This was reported by Al-Thalabi, Al-Wahidi, and Ibn Mardawayh with their chain to Abu ibn Ka'b.