The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ When the event befalleth - 1 And there can be no denying of its befalling. 2 It will abase some and exalt others. 3 When the earth is shaken violently, 4 And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms, 5 So that they become dust seattered. 6 And ye are classes three. 7 Those of the right hand -- how (happy) will be those of the right hand! 8 Then those of the left hand -- how (unhappy) will be those of the left hand! 9 And the foremost are the foremost, 10 Those! they shall be the brought nigh, 11 In gardens of bliss [will they dwell] 12 a large group of the early believers, 13 but [only] a few of later times. 14 (They will be) on thrones woven with gold and precious stones, 15 Reclining thereon, face to face. 16 Round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness), 17 With cups, and jugs, and a glass from the flowing wine, 18 Unheady, uninebriating; 19 And fruit; that they may choose. 20 And flesh of fowls that they desire. 21 And pure, beautiful ones, 22 like the pearls in their shells: 23 A Reward for the deeds of their past (life). 24 No Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk) will they hear therein, nor any sinful speech (like backbiting, etc.). 25 All talk will be sound and upright. 26 And the companions of the right hand; how happy are the companions of the right hand! 27 They shall be in the midst of thornless lote trees, 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 And extended shade, 30 And water everflowing. 31 And fruit in plenty, 32 undiminished and never denied 33 on raised couches. 34 and their spouses We shall have brought them into being afresh, 35 and We made them spotless virgins, 36 chastely amorous, 37 for those on the Right, 38