The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When there happeneth the Event. 1 And there can be no denying of its befalling. 2 (it will) abase (some) and exalt (others). 3 When the earth will be shaken with a terrible shake. 4 and the mountains are totally shattered and crumble to pieces 5 becoming scattered dust, 6 [on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds. 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 And those on the left – how (wretched) are those on the left! 9 And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). 10 Those! they shall be the brought nigh, 11 in the Gardens of Bliss. 12 A number of people from those of old, 13 And a few from the later generations. 14 on lavish couches 15 facing one another. 16 Immortal youths will serve them 17 with goblets, and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And such fruits as they fancy, 20 Bird meats that they relish, 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 The like of the hidden pearls: 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 Nought but the saying: peace! peace! 26 The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 27 Among thorn-less lote-trees. 28 and flower-clad acacias, 29 And extended shade, 30 And water flowing constantly, 31 and abundant fruit, 32 unfailing and not forbidden. 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 We have indeed developed these women with an excellent development. 35 So made them as maidens. 36 full of love, well-matched 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38