The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ WHEN WHAT IS to happen comes to pass -- 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 Abasing exalting. 3 When the earth is shaken with a shaking [severe,] 4 and the mountains are totally shattered and crumble to pieces 5 and become a dust, scattered, 6 [on that Day] you shall be divided into three groups. 7 Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be! 8 And (then) those on the left hand; what of those on the left hand? 9 But the foremost shall be [they who in life were] the foremost [in faith and good works]: 10 These will be those Nearest to Allah: 11 in the beautiful Paradise. 12 a host of the ancients 13 And a few of those (foremost) will be from the later time (generations). 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining thereon, face to face. 16 Immortal youths will wait upon them 17 With vessels, pitchers and a cup [of wine] from a flowing spring - 18 They shall not be affected with headache thereby, nor shall they get exhausted, 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire. 21 and fair maidens with large, lustrous eyes 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 shall be their recompense for their deeds. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 All talk will be sound and upright. 26 The Companions of the Right 27 They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote 28 and clustered bananas, 29 In shade long-extended, 30 and flowing water, 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 never-ending and unforbidden. 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 and the noble maidens that We have created 35 And have made them virgins. 36 Loving (their husbands only), equal in age. 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38