The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ When the Terror descends 1 – and then there will be no one to deny its occurrence – 2 It will bring down [some] and raise up [others]. 3 when the earth will suddenly shake with a terrible shaking, 4 And the hills are ground to powder 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 Those on the Right -- how blessed are those on the 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 The third to the fore shall be the foremost. 10 Those are they who will be brought nigh 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 A [large] company of the former peoples 13 And a few from the later generations. 14 On thrones decorated, 15 Reclining thereon, face to face. 16 Youths of never-ending bloom will pass round to them 17 with goblets, and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And fruit that they prefer 20 and such flesh of fowl as they desire, 21 and there shall be wide-eyed maidens, 22 The likenesses of pearls well-protected, 23 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 They will not hear any useless speech in it, or any sin. 25 but only the saying: 'Peace, Peace' 26 The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 27 Among thorn-less lote-trees. 28 And [banana] trees layered [with fruit] 29 And a shade ever-spread. 30 By water flowing constantly, 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 Whose season is not limited, and their supply will not be cut off, 33 And couches raised up. 34 We have created maidens perfectly 35 And made them virgins. 36 Loving companions matched in age, 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38