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 no belying its coming to pass-- 2 It will abase some and exalt others. 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 And the hills are ground to powder 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 And ye are classes three. 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 And those on the left hand; how miserable shall those on the left hand be! 9 And those who surpassed have indeed excelled. 10 These are they who are drawn nigh (to Allah), 11 In gardens of bliss [will they dwell] 12 (a throng of the ancients 13 And a few of later ages, 14 [They will be seated] on gold-encrusted thrones of happiness, 15 Reclining on them, facing each other. 16 Round about them shall go youths never altering in age, 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink; 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 Also, they will be served with the fruits of their choice 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire to eat; 21 and wide-eyed houris 22 as the likeness of hidden pearls, 23 The reward for what they did. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 All talk will be sound and upright. 26 As for the people of the right hand, how happy they will be! 27 Amid thornless lote-trees, 28 Bananatrees, piled 29 and continuous shade, 30 And in perpetually flowing water. 31 And fruits numberless, 32 never-failing and never out of reach. 33 and upraised couches. 34 Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a [new] creation 35 And have made them virgins. 36 chastely amorous, 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38