The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ When the Occurrence occurs, 1 Then will no (soul) entertain falsehood concerning its coming. 2 (a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down: 3 This will happen when the earth is shaken, shaken 4 and the mountains will crumble 5 And become dust dispersing. 6 [on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds. 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 The people of the left hand - those whose books of records will be placed in their left hands. How miserable they will be! 9 And the foremost are the foremost, 10 Who will be honoured 11 in the Gardens of Delight 12 a host of the ancients 13 but only a few from the later generations. 14 On lined couches, 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 with goblets and ewers and a cup filled with a drink drawn from a running spring, 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 Also, they will be served with the fruits of their choice 20 And the flesh of fowl such as they desire. 21 And wide eyed houris 22 as the likeness of hidden pearls, 23 Reward for what they used to do. 24 No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, 25 But only the saying of: Salam!, Salam! (greetings with peace)! 26 And the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand! 27 They shall be in the midst of thornless lote trees, 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 and amid the extended shade 30 And water everflowing. 31 And fruits numberless, 32 Unending, unforbidden, 33 And on couches or thrones, raised high. 34 and the noble maidens that We have created 35 So made them as maidens. 36 Devoted [to their husbands] and of equal age, 37 For the fellows on the right hand. 38