The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the inevitable event comes, 1 (and none denies its descending) 2 The event will be abasing some, and exalting some. 3 when the earth shall be rocked 4 And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms, 5 So that they become a scattered dust, 6 and you shall be three bands -- 7 The people of the right hand - those whose books of records will be placed in their right hands. How happy they will be! 8 Those on the Left -- how unlucky are those on the Left! 9 And those Foremost (in Faith) will be Foremost (in the Hereafter). 10 Who will be honoured 11 In the gardens of bliss. 12 A number of people from those of old, 13 and a few from later times. 14 On thrones woven [with ornament], 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 With goblets, (shining) beakers, and cups (filled) out of clear-flowing fountains: 18 (no brows throbbing, no intoxication) 19 they will also go about them with the fruits of which they may choose, 20 And the meat of fowl, from whatever they desire. 21 And pure, beautiful ones, 22 Like unto Pearls well-guarded. 23 a recompense for all that they did. 24 They will not hear therein ill speech or commission of sin - 25 Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation. 26 The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 27 Amid thornless lote-trees, 28 And clusters of banana plants. 29 And in everlasting shade. 30 And water everflowing. 31 And fruits numberless, 32 Whose season is not limited, nor (supply) forbidden, 33 on raised couches. 34 Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a [new] creation 35 And made them virgins, 36 Loving, of equal age. 37 For those on the right hand; 38