The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ When the Event inevitable cometh to pass, 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 (a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down: 3 When the earth will be shaken with a terrible shake. 4 And the mountains shall be made to crumble with (an awful) crumbling, 5 and become a dust, scattered, 6 You will become three categories: 7 Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be! 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 the Gardens of Delight, 12 a large group of the early believers, 13 And a few of those of later time. 14 On lined couches, 15 reclining on them, arrayed face to face; 16 they will be waited on by ageless youths 17 with goblets, and ewers, and cups filled with water from unsullied springs 18 Whereby there shall be neither headiness nor will they be inebriated. 19 with fruits of their own choice 20 And with flesh of fowls from that which they desire. 21 and wide-eyed houris 22 like hidden pearls, 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, 25 except each other's greetings of, "Peace be with you". 26 And those on the Right Hand, Who will be those on the Right Hand? 27 Among thornless lote-trees 28 and clustered bananas, 29 And a shade ever-spread. 30 Gushing water, 31 and fruits in abundance, 32 That will neither finish, nor ever be stopped. 33 And on Thrones (of Dignity), raised high. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 and made them virgins, 36 full of love, well-matched 37 for the Companions of the Right 38