The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the great event comes to pass, 1 There is about its happening no lie. 2 Degrading (some) and exalting (others); 3 when the earth shall be rocked 4 and the mountains are shattered into [countless] shards, 5 And become dust dispersing. 6 [on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds. 7 So those on the right – how (fortunate) are those on the right! 8 And those on the left – how (wretched) are those on the left! 9 And the forerunners, the forerunners - 10 Those! they shall be the brought nigh, 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 A large group from the earlier generations. 13 And a few from the later generations. 14 On thrones decorated, 15 reclining on them facing each other; 16 they will be waited on by ageless youths 17 with goblets and ewers, and a cup from a spring 18 by which their minds will not be clouded and which will not make them drunk; 19 And with fruits, any that they may select: 20 and such flesh of fowl as they desire, 21 And (there will be) Houris (fair females) with wide, lovely eyes (as wives for the pious), 22 beautiful as pearls hidden in their shells. 23 As recompense for all they had done. 24 They shall not hear therein vain or sinful discourse, 25 but only the tiding of inner soundness and peace. 26 As for the People on the Right, how fortunate shall be the people on the Right! 27 Among thornless lote-trees 28 Among Talh (banana-trees) with fruits piled one above another, 29 And in everlasting shade. 30 And water flowing constantly, 31 And plenty of fruits. 32 never-failing and never out of reach. 33 and raised couches 34 Lo! We have created them a (new) creation 35 and made them virgins, 36 The beloved of their husbands, of one age. 37 For those on the right hand; 38