The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Occurrence occurs, 1 – and then there will be no one to deny its occurrence – 2 (a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down: 3 When the earth is shaken with a shaking [severe,] 4 The mountains bruised and crushed, 5 and will scatter abroad into fine dust. 6 [on that Day] you shall be divided into three groups. 7 Then (there will be) the Companions of the Right Hand;- What will be the Companions of the Right Hand? 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 And those who surpassed have indeed excelled. 10 they who were [always] drawn close unto God! 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 A throng of the ancients, 13 but only a few from the later generations. 14 on lavish couches 15 Reclining on them, facing each other. 16 they will be waited on by ageless youths 17 With goblets, (shining) beakers, and cups (filled) out of clear-flowing fountains: 18 which will not cause them any intoxication or illness. 19 And fruit that they prefer 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 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 There they shall hear no idle talk, no cause of sin, 25 but only the saying: 'Peace, Peace' 26 And those on the right – how (fortunate) are those on the right! 27 (will be) among thornless Lote trees. 28 And clustered plantains, 29 And in everlasting shade. 30 By water flowing constantly, 31 and fruit abounding, 32 never-ending and unforbidden. 33 on raised couches. 34 and their spouses We shall have brought them into being afresh, 35 And made them virginal, 36 Beloved (by nature), equal in age,- 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38