The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Terror descends 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 It will abase some and exalt others. 3 When the earth is shaken with a shaking [severe,] 4 and the mountains crumbled 5 and become a dust, scattered, 6 You will become three categories: 7 Then the companions of the right - what are the companions of the right? 8 And those on the left hand; how miserable shall those on the left hand be! 9 The foremost ones (in faith and virtue) - the foremost ones in receiving their reward. 10 It is they who are the close ones. 11 in the Gardens of Bliss. 12 a large group of the early believers, 13 but only a few from the later generations. 14 On lined couches, 15 reclining upon them, set face to face, 16 immortal youths shall go about them 17 with goblets, and ewers, and cups filled with water from unsullied springs 18 Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness, 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 And the flesh of fowls that they desire. 21 And pure, beautiful ones, 22 The likenesses of pearls well-protected, 23 a recompense for that they laboured. 24 There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination 25 Only the saying, "Peace! Peace". 26 The Companions of the Right 27 They shall be in the midst of thornless lote trees, 28 and serried acacias, 29 and continuous shade, 30 and waters gushing, 31 And fruit in plenty 32 That will neither finish, nor ever be stopped. 33 and upraised couches. 34 Indeed We formed them (the houris and all believing women), 35 And have made them virgins. 36 Loving, of equal age. 37 for the people of the right hand 38