The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When there happeneth the Event. 1 (and none denies its descending) 2 The event will be abasing some, and exalting some. 3 This will happen when the earth is shaken, shaken 4 And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled. 5 and become a dust, scattered, 6 You will become three categories: 7 Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be! 8 Then those of the left hand -- how (unhappy) will be those of the left hand! 9 Then the foremost, how pre-excellent, 10 It is they who are the close ones. 11 In Gardens of Delight. 12 a host of the ancients 13 and only a few of them from the later generations. 14 On lined couches, 15 Reclining on them, facing each other. 16 They will be served by immortal boys, 17 carrying goblets and ewers and cups filled with the purest wine, 18 that will neither make the head throb, nor intoxicate, 19 And fruit of what they select 20 Bird meats that they relish, 21 And there will be fair ones large eyed. 22 The likes unto pearls hidden. 23 As reward for what they used to do. 24 No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, 25 Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation. 26 The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 27 [They will be] among lote trees with thorns removed 28 Among Talh (banana-trees) with fruits piled one above another, 29 and amid the extended shade 30 And water poured out 31 And fruit abundant. 32 never-ending and unforbidden. 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 We have indeed developed these women with an excellent development. 35 We have made them virgins, 36 Beloved (by nature), equal in age,- 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38