The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ When the Occurrence occurs, 1 And there can be no denying of its befalling. 2 It will bring low (some); (and others) it will exalt; 3 When the earth is shaken with a shock 4 and the mountains fragmented 5 becoming scattered dust, 6 And you will become divided into three categories. 7 Those on the Right -- how blessed are those on the Right! 8 The people of the left hand - those whose books of records will be placed in their left hands. How miserable they will be! 9 And the foremost are the foremost, 10 Who will be honoured 11 In gardens of bliss [will they dwell] 12 A throng of the ancients, 13 And a few from those of later times. 14 On thrones woven [with ornament], 15 facing one another. 16 they will be waited on by ageless youths 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 Unheady, uninebriating; 19 And with fruits, any that they may select: 20 And flesh of fowls that they desire. 21 And companions with big beautiful eyes 22 beautiful as pearls hidden in their shells. 23 As recompense for all they had done. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 Other than "Peace, peace" the salutation. 26 The Companions of the Right Hand,- what will be the Companions of the Right Hand? 27 They shall be in the midst of thornless lote trees, 28 And clusters of banana plants. 29 and extended shade, 30 By water flowing constantly, 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 chastely amorous, 37 For the fellows on the right hand. 38