The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Terror descends 1 – and then there will be no one to deny its occurrence – 2 The event will be abasing some, and exalting some. 3 When the earth is shaken with a shock 4 And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled. 5 So they will become like fine dust, scattered in a shaft of light. 6 [on that Day] you shall be divided into three groups. 7 Thus, there shall be such as will have attained to what is right: oh, how [happy] will be they who have attained to what is right! 8 And there shall be such as will have lost themselves in evil: oh, how [unhappy] will be they who have lost themselves in evil! 9 And those who surpassed have indeed excelled. 10 (The foremost ones) will be the nearest ones to God 11 In Gardens of Bliss: 12 A throng of the ancients, 13 And a few of those of later time. 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 reclining on them, arrayed face to face; 16 Youths of never-ending bloom will pass round to them 17 With cups, and jugs, and a glass from the flowing wine, 18 They shall not be affected with headache thereby, nor shall they get exhausted, 19 and such fruits as they shall choose, 20 And the flesh of fowl such as they desire. 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 Like pearls within their shells, 23 shall be their recompense for their deeds. 24 Therein they shall hear no idle talk, no cause of sin, 25 All talk will be sound and upright. 26 And those on the right – how (fortunate) are those on the right! 27 (They will be) among Lote-trees without thorns, 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 And spreading shade, 30 and flowing water 31 and fruits in abundance, 32 Neither ending nor forbidden. 33 They shall be on upraised couches, 34 Perfectly We formed them, perfect, 35 and made them virgins, 36 The beloved of their husbands, of one age. 37 for those on the Right, 38