The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ WHEN THAT which must come to pass [at last] comes to pass, 1 And there can be no denying of its befalling. 2 abasing, exalting, 3 This will happen when the earth is shaken, shaken 4 and the mountains crumbled 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 You shall then become three groups. 7 Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 8 Companions of the Left, what are the Companions of the Left? 9 And the preceders are the preceders. 10 Those! they shall be the brought nigh, 11 They will dwell in the Gardens of Bliss: 12 a good many of those of olden times, 13 And a few from the later generations. 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining therein face to face. 16 There shall go round unto them youths ever-young. 17 carrying goblets and ewers and cups filled with the purest wine, 18 Unheady, uninebriating; 19 And fruit that they prefer 20 And with flesh of fowls from that which they desire. 21 And companions with big beautiful eyes 22 The likes unto pearls hidden. 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 They shall not hear therein vain or sinful discourse, 25 (Naught) but the saying: Peace, (and again) Peace. 26 NOW AS FOR those who have attained to righteousness - what of those who have attained to righteousness? 27 [They, too, will find themselves] amidst fruit laden lote-trees, 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 and shade extended, 30 And in perpetually flowing water. 31 And fruit in plenty 32 Neither intercepted nor forbidden, 33 And [with them will be their] spouses, raised high: 34 Indeed We formed them (the houris and all believing women), 35 And made them virgins. 36 Loving, equals in age, 37 For the fellows on the right hand. 38