The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ WHEN WHAT IS to happen comes to pass -- 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 some shall be abased and others exalted. 3 When the earth is violently shaken 4 and the mountains crumbled, 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 And ye are classes three. 7 Those of the right hand -- how (happy) will be those of the right hand! 8 And those on the left – how (wretched) are those on the left! 9 And the foremost in the race, the foremost in the race: 10 those are they brought nigh the Throne, 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 A large group from the earlier generations. 13 And a few from the latter. 14 upon close-wrought couches 15 reclining on them, arrayed face to face; 16 There wait on them immortal youths 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 Their heads shall not ache with it, nor shall they lose their senses. 19 Also, they will be served with the fruits of their choice 20 And the flesh of fowls that they desire. 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 like unto pearls [still] hidden in their shells. 23 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 There they shall hear no idle talk, no cause of sin, 25 Nought but the saying: peace! peace! 26 And the fellows on the right hand; how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be! 27 Among thornless lote-trees 28 and acacias flower-clad, 29 and amid the extended shade 30 and outpoured waters, 31 And fruit in abundance. 32 Unending, unforbidden, 33 And carpets raised. 34 Lo! We have created them a (new) creation 35 And made them virgins, 36 intensely loving and of matching age. 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38