The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ WHEN THAT which must come to pass [at last] comes to pass, 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 (Many) will it bring low; (many) will it exalt; 3 When the earth shall be shaken to its depths, 4 And the mountains shall be made to crumble with (an awful) crumbling, 5 they will become like dust scattered around. 6 And ye shall be sorted out into three classes. 7 The People on the Right: and how fortunate will be the People on the Right! 8 And the People on the Left: and how miserable will be the People on the Left! 9 And the Outstrippers, the Outstrippers 10 Those! they shall be the brought nigh, 11 in the Gardens of Bliss. 12 a good many of those of olden times, 13 And a few from among the latter. 14 On couches in wrought with gold. 15 reclining on them facing each other; 16 they will be waited on by ageless youths 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness, 19 they will also go about them with the fruits of which they may choose, 20 And with flesh of fowls from that which they desire. 21 And there will be fair ones large eyed. 22 beautiful as pearls hidden in their shells. 23 The reward for what they did. 24 No empty talk will they hear there, nor any call to sin, 25 Only a saying: "Peace, peace." 26 And those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 27 (They will be) among thornless lote-trees, 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 and spreading shade 30 And water poured out 31 and fruit abounding, 32 Neither limited [to season] nor forbidden, 33 And raised couches. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 and made them virgins, 36 chaste, loving companions of the same age 37 For those on the right. 38