English - Chapter 56 - Al-Waqiah

When there happeneth Event

There is about its happening no lie

Abasing exalting

This will happen when the earth is shaken, shaken

And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled

So that they become dust seattered

And ye are classes three

Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be

And those on the left hand; how miserable shall those on the left hand be

And the preceders are the pre-ceders

Those! they shall be the brought nigh

In Gardens of Delight

A multitude from the ancients

And a few from the later generations

Reclining thereon facing each other

There shall go round Unto them youths ever-young

With goblets and ewers and a cup of limpid drink

Whereby there shall be neither headiness nor will they be inebriated

And with fruit from that which they choose

And with flesh of fowls from that Which they desire

And there will be fair ones large eyed

The likes Unto pearls hidden

A recompense for that which they have been working

Therein they hear no vain or sinful discourse

Nought but the saying: peace! peace

And the fellows on the right hand; how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be

Midst lote-trees thornless

And plantains laden with fruit

And a shade ever-spread

And water everflowing

And fruit abundant

Neither ending nor forbidden

And carpets raised

Verily We! We have created those maidens by a creation

And have made them virgins

Loving, of equal age

For the fellows on the right hand

A multitude from the ancients

And a multitude from the later generations

And the fellows on the left hand; how miserable Shall the fellows on the left hand be

Amidst scorching wind and scalding water

And the shade of black smoke

Neither cool nor pleasant

Verily they have been heretofore affluent

And they have been persisting in the heinous offence

And they were wont to say: when we have died and become dust and bones, shall we, then, verily be raised

We and our fathers of old

Say thou: verily the ancients and those of later generations

Are going to be assembled on the appointed time of a Day Known

Then verily ye, O ye erring, denying people

Shall surely eat of the tree of Az-Zqqum

And shall fill therewith your bellies

And shall be drinkers thereon of boiling water

Drinkers even as the drinking of thirsty camels

This shall be their entertainment on the Day of Requital

We! it is We Who created you: wherefore confess ye not

Behold! - that which ye emit

Create him ye, or are We the Creator

We! it is We Who have decreed death Unto you all. And We are not to be outrun

That We may substitute others like Unto you and produce you into that which ye know not

And assuredly ye have fully known the first Production Wherefore heed ye not

Behold! - that which ye sow

Cause it ye to grow, or are We the Grower

If We willed, surely We would make it chaff, so that ye would be left wondering

Verily we are undone

Aye! we are deprived

Behold! - the water which ye drink

Send it down ye from the raincloud, or are We the Sender down

If We willed, surely We would make it brackish. Wherefore give ye not thanks

Behold! - the fire which ye strike out

Produce ye the tree thereof, or are We the Producer

We! it is We Who made it a reminder and a provision Unto the campers

Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty

I swear by the setting of the stars

And verily that is a mighty oath, if ye but knew

That it is a Recitation honourable

In a Book Hidden

Which none can touch except the purified

It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds

Is it this discourse that ye hold lightly

And make it your provision that ye should belie it

Wherefore then - when the soul cometh up to the wind-pipe

And ye are then looking on

And We are nigher Unto him than ye are, but ye behold not

Wherefore then, if ye are not to be requited

Cause ye it not to return, if ye say sooth

Then if he be of the broughtnigh

For him shall be comfort, and fragrance and a Garden of Delight

And if he be of the fellows on the right hand

Then: peace Unto thee, for thou art of those on the right hand

And if he be of the beliers, the erring

Then an entertainment of boiling water

And roasting in a Blaze

Verily this! this is the very truth

Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty