The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ When there happeneth the Event. 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 Abasing (one party), exalting (the other), 3 When the earth is shaken 4 and the mountains crumbled, 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 And you shall be three sorts. 7 So those on the Right Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Records in their right hands), Who will be those on the Right Hand? (As a respect for them, because they will enter Paradise). 8 And the People on the Left: and how miserable will be the People on the Left! 9 And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). 10 Those are the ones brought near [to Allah] 11 In the gardens of bliss. 12 A multitude of those (foremost) will be from the first generations (who embraced Islam). 13 And a few of those (foremost) will be from the later time (generations). 14 On couches in wrought with gold. 15 facing one another. 16 Immortal youths will wait upon them 17 With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring 18 that will neither make the head throb, nor intoxicate, 19 And with fruit from that which they choose. 20 And meat of birds that they may wish. 21 And (there will be) Houris (fair females) with wide, lovely eyes (as wives for the pious), 22 The likes unto pearls hidden. 23 The reward for what they did. 24 There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination 25 Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation. 26 And the fellows on the right hand; how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be! 27 Among thornless lote-trees 28 Among Talh (banana-trees) with fruits piled one above another, 29 and spreading shade 30 And in perpetually flowing water. 31 And fruit in abundance. 32 never-failing and never out of reach. 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 Lo! We have created them a (new) creation 35 having resurrected them as virgins, 36 Loving companions matched in age, 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38