The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Terror descends 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 abasing [some,] exalting [others]! 3 When the earth is shaken 4 And the mountains will be powdered to dust. 5 So that they become a scattered dust, 6 And ye shall be sorted out into three classes. 7 So those on the right – how (fortunate) are those on the right! 8 Companions of the Left, what are the Companions of the Left? 9 And the Outstrippers, the Outstrippers 10 Who will be honoured 11 in the Gardens of Delight, 12 a large group of the early believers, 13 but only a few from the later generations. 14 They will recline on jewelled couches 15 Reclining therein face to face. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of limpid drink. 18 which will not cause them any intoxication or illness. 19 And with fruits, any that they may select: 20 and any flesh of fowl that they desire. 21 And (there will be) Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes,- 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 A recompense for that which they have been working. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 Only the saying, "Peace! Peace". 26 As for the people of the right hand, how happy they will be! 27 mid thornless lote-trees 28 And plantains laden with fruit. 29 and spreading shade 30 and outpoured waters, 31 And plenty of fruits. 32 Neither intercepted nor forbidden, 33 And couches raised up. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 having resurrected them as virgins, 36 Loving (their husbands only), equal in age. 37 For the sake of the companions of the right hand. 38