The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ WHEN THAT which must come to pass [at last] comes to pass, 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 Abasing (one party), exalting (the other), 3 when the earth shall be rocked 4 and the mountains crumbled, 5 and become a dust, scattered, 6 And ye shall be sorted out into three classes. 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 Companions of the Left, what are the Companions of the Left? 9 And the forerunners, the forerunners - 10 (The foremost ones) will be the nearest ones to God 11 In Gardens of Bliss: 12 A multitude from the ancients. 13 And a few from those of later times. 14 (They will be) on Thrones encrusted (with gold and precious stones), 15 facing one another. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink; 18 a drink by which their minds will not be clouded nor will it cause drunkenness; 19 with fruits of their own choice 20 and the flesh of birds, as they desire. 21 They will have maidens with large, lovely black and white eyes, 22 beautiful as pearls hidden in their shells. 23 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 Except the word peace, peace. 26 And the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand! 27 They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote 28 and serried acacias, 29 And shade extended 30 and flowing water, 31 And fruit in abundance. 32 Neither intercepted nor forbidden, 33 They shall be on upraised couches, 34 Indeed We formed them (the houris and all believing women), 35 and made them virgins, 36 chastely amorous, 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38