The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ When the Event (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) befalls. 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 Abasing exalting. 3 When the earth is shaken up convulsively, 4 and the mountains will crumble 5 Becoming dust scattered abroad, 6 You will become three categories: 7 Then (there will be) the Companions of the Right Hand;- What will be the Companions of the Right Hand? 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 Bliss. 12 A number of people from those of old, 13 and a lesser number from the later generations. 14 On thrones decorated, 15 Reclining thereon facing each other. 16 Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness), 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of limpid drink. 18 No headache will they have therefrom, nor will they be intoxicated - 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 Bird meats that they relish, 21 and wide-eyed houris 22 The likenesses of pearls well-protected, 23 [And this will be] a reward for what they did [in life]. 24 They will not hear therein ill speech or commission of sin - 25 Only a saying: "Peace, peace." 26 And those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 27 (They will be) among Lote-trees without thorns, 28 Bananatrees, piled 29 and shade extended, 30 and flowing water 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 Unending, unforbidden, 33 And couches raised up. 34 Surely We have made them to grow into a (new) growth, 35 and made them virgins, 36 loving companions, matching in age, 37 For the Companions of the Right Hand. 38