The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ When the Terror descends 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 (Many) will it bring low; (many) will it exalt; 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 and the mountains crumbled, 5 So that they shall be as scattered dust. 6 And you become [of] three kinds: 7 The People on the Right: and how fortunate will be the People on the Right! 8 Companions of the Left, what are the Companions of the Left? 9 And the foremost are the foremost, 10 They shall be the nearest to God. 11 In gardens of bliss [will they dwell] 12 A [large] company of the former peoples 13 And a few of later ages, 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining face to face. 16 Youths of never-ending bloom will pass round to them 17 with goblets, jugs and cups of crystal clear wine 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And fruit; that they may choose. 20 And the flesh of fowls that they desire. 21 and wide-eyed houris 22 The like of the hidden pearls: 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 There they shall hear no idle talk nor any sinful speech. 25 But only the saying of: Salam!, Salam! (greetings with peace)! 26 Those on the Right, how fortunate are those on the Right! 27 They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote 28 Bananatrees, piled 29 and extended shade, 30 and outpoured waters, 31 And fruit in abundance. 32 unfailing and not forbidden. 33 And maidens incomparable. 34 Surely We have made them to grow into a (new) growth, 35 And made them virginal, 36 Beloved (by nature), equal in age,- 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38