The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the forthcoming event does occur. 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 It will bring low (some); (and others) it will exalt; 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 and the mountains crumbled 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 and you shall be three bands -- 7 Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be! 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 And those foremost [(in Islamic Faith of Monotheism and in performing righteous deeds) in the life of this world on the very first call for to embrace Islam,] will be foremost (in Paradise). 10 They shall be near-stationed (to their Lord), 11 in the Gardens of Bliss. 12 (a throng of the ancients 13 and a lesser number from the later generations. 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 immortal youths going round about them 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of limpid drink. 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And fruits such as they choose, 20 And with flesh of fowls from that which they desire. 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 They will not hear any useless speech in it, or any sin. 25 Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation. 26 And the fellows on the right hand; how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be! 27 They will live amid the thornless lot trees 28 And banana-trees (with fruits), one above another. 29 and amid the extended shade 30 By water flowing constantly, 31 and fruit abounding, 32 Neither limited [to season] nor forbidden, 33 And exalted thrones. 34 for, behold, We shall have brought them into being in a life renewed, 35 And made them virgins, 36 Loving companions matched in age, 37 For the sake of the companions of the right hand. 38