The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Event (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) befalls. 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 The event will be abasing some, and exalting some. 3 When the earth is shaken with convulsion 4 And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled. 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 And you will become divided into three categories. 7 The People on the Right: and how fortunate will be the People on the Right! 8 And those on the Left Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Record in their left hands), Who will be those on the Left Hand? (As a disgrace for them, because they will enter Hell). 9 But the foremost shall be [they who in life were] the foremost [in faith and good works]: 10 Who will be honoured 11 in the Gardens of Delight 12 A number of the earlier peoples, 13 but [only] a few of later times. 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining on them, facing each other. 16 There shall go round unto them youths ever-young. 17 With cups, and jugs, and a glass from the flowing wine, 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And with fruits, any that they may select: 20 and such flesh of fowl as they desire, 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 The likenesses of pearls well-protected, 23 The reward for what they did. 24 No Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk) will they hear therein, nor any sinful speech (like backbiting, etc.). 25 (Naught) but the saying: Peace, (and again) Peace. 26 The Companions of the Right 27 mid thornless lote-trees 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 Lengthened shadows, 30 Gushing water, 31 and fruits abounding 32 unfailing, unforbidden, 33 And raised couches. 34 We have indeed developed these women with an excellent development. 35 And made them virgins, 36 intensely loving and of matching age. 37 for the Companions of the Right 38