The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Event inevitable cometh to pass, 1 there is no denying its coming 2 abasing, exalting, 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 And the hills are ground to powder 5 becoming scattered dust, 6 You shall then become three groups. 7 Then the companions of the right - what are the companions of the right? 8 And those on the left – how (wretched) are those on the left! 9 The third to the fore shall be the foremost. 10 These are they who are drawn nigh (to Allah), 11 In Gardens of Delight. 12 A multitude from the ancients. 13 and a lesser number from the later generations. 14 They (will be seated) on gold-encrusted couches, 15 Reclining thereon facing each other. 16 Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness), 17 with goblets, and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 No after-ache will they receive therefrom, nor will they suffer intoxication: 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire to eat; 21 And gorgeous eyed fair maidens. 22 like unto pearls [still] hidden in their shells. 23 a recompense for all that they did. 24 No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, 25 only the saying 'Peace, Peace!' 26 The Companions of the Right 27 (They will be) among thornless lote-trees, 28 and clustered bananas, 29 and spreading shade 30 By water flowing constantly, 31 and fruits abounding 32 unfailing and not forbidden. 33 on raised couches. 34 Surely We have made them to grow into a (new) growth, 35 And made them virgin - pure (and undefiled), - 36 Loving, equals in age, 37 for the Companions of the Right 38