The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ When the Event (the resurrection) comes 1 There is no belying its coming to pass-- 2 Degrading (some) and exalting (others); 3 When the earth is shaken with a shock 4 And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled. 5 So that they become a scattered dust, 6 And ye will be three kinds: 7 (First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand? 8 And those on the Left Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Record in their left hands), Who will be those on the Left Hand? (As a disgrace for them, because they will enter Hell). 9 The third to the fore shall be the foremost. 10 (The foremost ones) will be the nearest ones to God 11 in the Gardens of Delight, 12 a host of the ancients 13 And a few of later ages, 14 upon close-wrought couches 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 Immortal youths will serve them 17 With goblets and ewers and a cup of pure drink; 18 No headache will they have therefrom, nor will they be intoxicated - 19 And fruit that they prefer 20 And the meat of fowl, from whatever they desire. 21 And there will be fair ones large eyed. 22 The likes unto pearls hidden. 23 A recompense for that which they have been working. 24 There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination 25 only the saying 'Peace, Peace!' 26 The companions of the right - what are the companions of the right? 27 Among thornless lote-trees 28 And banana-trees (with fruits), one above another. 29 and amid the extended shade 30 And water poured out 31 And plenty of fruits. 32 never-failing and never out of reach. 33 And on couches or thrones, raised high. 34 Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a [new] creation 35 And made them virgins, 36 Lovers, friends, 37 For those on the right hand; 38