The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ When the great event comes to pass, 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 It will bring low (some); (and others) it will exalt; 3 When the earth is shaken with a shock 4 The mountains bruised and crushed, 5 And become dust dispersing. 6 [on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds. 7 Then (there will be) the Companions of the Right Hand;- What will be the Companions of the Right Hand? 8 Companions of the Left (O Companions of the Left!) 9 The foremost ones (in faith and virtue) - the foremost ones in receiving their reward. 10 Who will be honoured 11 in the beautiful Paradise. 12 A throng of the ancients, 13 and only a few of them from the later generations. 14 on lavish couches 15 they shall recline, facing each other, 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 Wherefrom they will get neither any aching of the head, nor any intoxication. 19 with fruits of their own choice 20 and the meat of any bird that they may desire; 21 And companions with big beautiful eyes 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 All this shall be theirs as a reward for their deeds. 24 There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination 25 (Naught) but the saying: Peace, (and again) Peace. 26 And the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand! 27 [They, too, will find themselves] amidst fruit laden lote-trees, 28 Among Talh (banana-trees) with fruits piled one above another, 29 and shade extended, 30 And in perpetually flowing water. 31 And fruit abundant. 32 Neither out of reach nor yet forbidden, 33 And [upon] beds raised high. 34 Verily We! We have created those maidens by a creation. 35 and made them virgins, 36 Beloved (by nature), equal in age,- 37 For those on the Right Hand. 38