The Inevitable (Al-Waaqe'ah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ WHEN WHAT IS to happen comes to pass -- 1 and there can be no denying its happening, 2 abasing [some,] exalting [others]! 3 When the earth is shaken with convulsion 4 and the mountains will crumble 5 so that they become as scattered dust 6 And you shall be three sorts. 7 Companions of the Right, what are the Companions of the Right? 8 Companions of the Left (O Companions of the Left!) 9 The third to the fore shall be the foremost. 10 They shall be near-stationed (to their Lord), 11 In the Gardens of Pleasure, 12 (a throng of the ancients 13 but only a few from the later generations. 14 [They will be seated] on gold-encrusted thrones of happiness, 15 Reclining on them, facing one another. 16 There will circulate among them young boys made eternal 17 With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring 18 Wherefrom they will get neither any aching of the head, nor any intoxication. 19 And fruits such as they choose, 20 and with the flesh of any fowl that they may desire to eat; 21 And (there will be) Houris (fair females) with wide, lovely eyes (as wives for the pious), 22 Like unto hidden pearls, 23 as reward for their deeds. 24 No Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk) will they hear therein, nor any sinful speech (like backbiting, etc.). 25 But only the saying of: Salam!, Salam! (greetings with peace)! 26 The companions of the right - what are the companions of the right? 27 They will live amid the thornless lot trees 28 And [banana] trees layered [with fruit] 29 And extended shade, 30 and waters gushing, 31 and abundant fruits, 32 Neither limited [to season] nor forbidden, 33 on raised couches. 34 Verily We! We have created those maidens by a creation. 35 So made them as maidens. 36 Loving (their husbands only), equal in age. 37 for the Companions of the Right 38