The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Event inevitable cometh to pass, 1 no soul will deny its coming. 2 Abasing exalting. 3 When the earth is shaken with a shock 4 and the mountains fragmented 5 and will scatter abroad into fine dust. 6 You will become three categories: 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 Those on the Left -- how unlucky are those on the Left! 9 And the Outstrippers, the Outstrippers 10 They shall be near-stationed (to their Lord), 11 They are in Gardens of peace. 12 Many of them will be from the ancient people 13 and a few from later times. 14 On couches in wrought with gold. 15 reclining upon them, facing one another [in love]. 16 They will be served by immortal boys, 17 with goblets and ewers and a cup filled with a drink drawn from a running spring, 18 Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness, 19 And fruits such as they choose, 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire to eat; 21 And there will be fair ones large eyed. 22 The like of the hidden pearls: 23 All this shall be theirs as a reward for their deeds. 24 They will not hear therein any vain or sinful talk, 25 only the saying 'Peace, Peace!' 26 And those on the Right Hand, Who will be those on the Right Hand? 27 [They, too, will find themselves] amidst fruit laden lote-trees, 28 and clustered bananas, 29 and extended shade, 30 and flowing water, 31 And fruit in abundance. 32 unfailing and not forbidden. 33 and raised couches 34 Indeed We formed them (the houris and all believing women), 35 We have made them virgins, 36 intensely loving and of matching age. 37 For those on the right hand; 38