The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When the great event comes to pass, 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 Abasing exalting. 3 When the earth is violently shaken 4 And the mountains are broken down, crumbling 5 and become like scattered dust particles, 6 And ye will be three kinds: 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 Then the foremost, how pre-excellent, 10 (The foremost ones) will be the nearest ones to God 11 in the Gardens of Bliss. 12 A number of the earlier peoples, 13 And a few from the later generations. 14 On couches in wrought with gold. 15 Reclining thereon, face to face. 16 Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness), 17 carrying goblets and ewers and cups filled with the purest wine, 18 Wherefrom they will get neither any aching of the head, nor any intoxication. 19 And fruits such as they choose, 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire to eat; 21 And wide eyed houris 22 like pearls preserved in their shells, 23 shall be their recompense for their deeds. 24 There they shall hear no idle talk nor any sinful speech. 25 only the words of peace and tranquillity. 26 As for the People on the Right, how fortunate shall be the people on the Right! 27 [They, too, will find themselves] amidst fruit laden lote-trees, 28 And clusters of banana plants. 29 And a shade ever-spread. 30 and outpoured waters, 31 And plenty of fruits. 32 undiminished and never denied 33 And maidens incomparable. 34 and their spouses We shall have brought them into being afresh, 35 And made them virgins. 36 Loving, of equal age. 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38