The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Occurrence occurs, 1 There is no belying its coming to pass-- 2 abasing [some,] exalting [others]! 3 when the earth will suddenly shake with a terrible shaking, 4 and the mountains will crumble 5 So that they will become floating dust particles. 6 And ye are classes three. 7 The people of the right hand - those whose books of records will be placed in their right hands. How happy they will be! 8 The people of the left hand - those whose books of records will be placed in their left hands. How miserable they will be! 9 And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). 10 They shall be the nearest to God. 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 A multitude from the ancients. 13 and a few from later times. 14 on lavish couches 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 There wait on them immortal youths 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink; 18 neither causing headaches, nor intoxication; 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 And the flesh of fowls, any that they may desire. 21 And [with them will be their] companions pure, most beautiful of eye, 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 A recompense for that which they have been working. 24 They will not hear therein ill speech or commission of sin - 25 Only a saying: "Peace, peace." 26 As for the People on the Right, how fortunate shall be the people on the Right! 27 Amid thornless lote-trees, 28 Bananatrees, piled 29 and extended shade, 30 And in perpetually flowing water. 31 And fruit, abundant [and varied], 32 Whose season is not limited, nor (supply) forbidden, 33 They shall be on upraised couches, 34 Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a [new] creation 35 and shall have made them virgins, 36 Loving, equals in age, 37 For those on the right. 38