The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ When the inevitable event comes, 1 there is no denying its coming 2 Degrading (some) and exalting (others); 3 When the earth is violently shaken 4 The mountains bruised and crushed, 5 Turned to dust, floating in the air, 6 And you will become divided into three categories. 7 Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be! 8 Then those of the left hand -- how (unhappy) will be those of the left hand! 9 And those who surpassed have indeed excelled. 10 those are they brought near (to their Lord) 11 They are in Gardens of peace. 12 (a throng of the ancients 13 And a few from the latter. 14 They will recline on jewelled couches 15 reclining upon them, facing one another [in love]. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 Carrying bowls and pitchers – and cups filled with wine flowing before them. 18 neither causing headaches, nor intoxication; 19 And fruits that they may like. 20 and the meat of any bird that they may desire; 21 and fair maidens with large, lustrous eyes 22 The like of the hidden pearls: 23 As recompense for all they had done. 24 Not frivolity will they hear therein, nor any taint of ill,- 25 All talk will be sound and upright. 26 The Companions of the Right (O Companions of the Right!) 27 They will be in (the shade) of thornless lote 28 And acacia covered with heaps of bloom, 29 and continuous shade, 30 And water gushing, 31 and fruits in abundance, 32 Unending, unforbidden, 33 And [upon] beds raised high. 34 We have created (their Companions) of special creation. 35 and shall have made them virgins, 36 Devoted [to their husbands] and of equal age, 37 with those who have attained to righteousness: 38