The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Event (the resurrection) comes 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 (Many) will it bring low; (many) will it exalt; 3 when the earth will suddenly shake with a terrible shaking, 4 and the mountains are shattered into [countless] shards, 5 so that they become as scattered dust 6 You will become three categories: 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 Those on the Left -- how unlucky are those on the Left! 9 And those foremost [(in Islamic Faith of Monotheism and in performing righteous deeds) in the life of this world on the very first call for to embrace Islam,] will be foremost (in Paradise). 10 Those are they who will be brought nigh 11 In gardens of delight; 12 A large group from the earlier generations. 13 and how few of the later folk) 14 upon close-wrought couches 15 they shall recline, facing each other, 16 immortal youths going round about them 17 with goblets, and ewers, and cups filled with water from unsullied springs 18 Unheady, uninebriating; 19 and such fruits as they shall choose, 20 Bird meats that they relish, 21 And there will be fair ones large eyed. 22 Like unto hidden pearls, 23 The reward for what they did. 24 They will not hear therein any vain or sinful talk, 25 only the saying 'Peace, Peace!' 26 As for those of the right hand -- how (happy) those of the right hand -- 27 They shall recline on high amidst lote trees without thorns 28 and clustered bananas, 29 And a shade ever-spread. 30 and flowing water 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 Unending, unforbidden, 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 We have made them virgins, 36 The beloved of their husbands, of one age. 37 for the people of the right hand 38