The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ When the great event comes to pass, 1 There is no belying its coming to pass-- 2 Degrading (some) and exalting (others); 3 When the earth will tremble, shivering. 4 And the mountains are broken down, crumbling 5 Becoming dust scattered abroad, 6 [on that Day] you shall be divided into three groups. 7 Companions of the Right, what are the Companions of the Right? 8 And there shall be such as will have lost themselves in evil: oh, how [unhappy] will be they who have lost themselves in evil! 9 The third to the fore shall be the foremost. 10 Those are the ones brought near [to Allah] 11 In gardens of delight; 12 A multitude of those (foremost) will be from the first generations (who embraced Islam). 13 and a lesser number from the later generations. 14 On couches wrought of gold, 15 Reclining thereon, face to face. 16 (and there) shall wait on them immortal youths 17 With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 and with fruit of any kind that they may choose, 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire. 21 and fair maidens with large, lustrous eyes 22 as the likeness of hidden pearls, 23 a recompense for all that they did. 24 They will not hear therein any vain or sinful talk, 25 Only a saying: "Peace, peace." 26 And those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 27 They will live amid the thornless lot trees 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 and continuous shade, 30 And water everflowing. 31 and fruits in abundance, 32 That will neither finish, nor ever be stopped. 33 And raised couches. 34 Lo! We have created them a (new) creation 35 And made them virgin - pure (and undefiled), - 36 Loving, equals in age, 37 For the Companions of the Right Hand. 38