The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Event will come to pass 1 There is, at its occurrence, no denial. 2 some shall be abased and others exalted. 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 And the mountains will be powdered to dust. 5 and will scatter abroad into fine dust. 6 You shall then become three groups. 7 Companions of the Right (O 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 And the foremost are the foremost, 10 These will be those nearest to Allah. 11 In Gardens of Delight. 12 (a throng of the ancients 13 and only a few of them from the later generations. 14 (They will be) on Thrones encrusted (with gold and precious stones), 15 Reclining thereon facing each other. 16 Immortal youths will wait upon them 17 Cups and decanters, beakers full of sparkling wine, 18 No headache will they have therefrom, nor will they be intoxicated - 19 And fruit that they prefer 20 and such flesh of fowl as they desire, 21 And companions with big beautiful eyes 22 Like unto Pearls well-guarded. 23 as reward for their deeds. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 But only the saying of: Salam!, Salam! (greetings with peace)! 26 NOW AS FOR those who have attained to righteousness - what of those who have attained to righteousness? 27 Amid thornless lote-trees, 28 and acacias flower-clad, 29 In shade long-extended, 30 Gushing water, 31 And fruits numberless, 32 Whose season is not limited, and their supply will not be cut off, 33 and upraised couches. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 and shall have made them virgins, 36 chastely amorous, 37 For the sake of the companions of the right hand. 38