The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ When the inevitable event comes, 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 (it will) abase (some) and exalt (others). 3 When the earth will be shaken with a terrible shake. 4 And the mountains will be crushed, blown to bits. 5 and become like scattered dust particles, 6 And you will become divided into three categories. 7 So those on the Right Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Records in their right hands), Who will be those on the Right Hand? (As a respect for them, because they will enter Paradise). 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 the foremost in the race, the foremost in the race: 10 They shall be near-stationed (to their Lord), 11 in the beautiful Paradise. 12 A large group from the earlier generations. 13 and only a few of them from the later generations. 14 (They will be) on Thrones encrusted (with gold and precious stones), 15 Reclining face to face. 16 Round about them shall go youths never altering in age, 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 Unheady, uninebriating; 19 with fruits of their own choice 20 and any flesh of fowl that they desire. 21 And [for them are] fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes, 22 Like pearls within their shells, 23 A reward for what they used to do. 24 They will not hear therein ill speech or commission of sin - 25 only the words of peace and tranquillity. 26 As for the people of the right hand, how happy they will be! 27 They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote 28 And plantains laden with fruit. 29 And in everlasting shade. 30 and outpoured waters, 31 and an abundance of fruits, 32 Neither intercepted nor forbidden, 33 And maidens incomparable. 34 Perfectly We formed them, perfect, 35 And made them virgins, 36 Loving, of equal age. 37 For those on the right. 38