The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When the inevitable event takes place, 1 there is no denying its coming 2 Abasing (one party), exalting (the other), 3 This will happen when the earth is shaken, shaken 4 and the mountains crumbled, 5 and will scatter abroad into fine dust. 6 And you shall be three sorts. 7 Thus, there shall be such as will have attained to what is right: oh, how [happy] will be they who have attained to what is right! 8 And those on the Left Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Record in their left hands), Who will be those on the Left Hand? (As a disgrace for them, because they will enter Hell). 9 And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). 10 These will be those nearest to Allah. 11 In the Gardens of delight (Paradise). 12 a large group of the early believers, 13 And a few of the later peoples, 14 They will recline on jewelled couches 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 (and there) shall wait on them immortal youths 17 With vessels, pitchers and a cup [of wine] from a flowing spring - 18 (no brows throbbing, no intoxication) 19 with fruits of their own choice 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire. 21 And gorgeous eyed fair maidens. 22 like pearls preserved in their shells, 23 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 They will not hear any unnecessary or sinful talk 25 Except the word peace, peace. 26 As for those of the right hand -- how (happy) those of the right hand -- 27 mid thornless lote-trees 28 and clustered bananas, 29 and amid the extended shade 30 And water poured out 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 Neither out of reach nor yet forbidden, 33 And [with them will be their] spouses, raised high: 34 Indeed We formed them (the houris and all believing women), 35 having resurrected them as virgins, 36 chaste, loving companions of the same age 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38