| | T.B.Irving rendition of Surah The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming(al-Waqi`ah)
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| 56:1 | | When the Inevitable arrives |
| 56:2 | | no one will deny its happening, |
| 56:3 | | humbling, exalting! |
| 56:4 | | The earth will be rocked with a jolt |
| 56:5 | | and the mountains crumble to pieces |
| 56:6 | | and become dust that is scattered about. |
| 56:7 | | You will form three groups: |
| 56:8 | | the Companions on the Right (What do the Companions on the Right [mean]?); |
| 56:9 | | the Companions on the Left (What do the Companions on the Unlucky side [mean]?); |
| 56:10 | | and the Pioneers will be out there leading! |
| 56:11 | | Those will be the nearest |
| 56:12 | | in gardens of bliss, |
| 56:13 | | a multitude from early men |
| 56:14 | | and a few from later ones |
| 56:15 | | on couches set close together, |
| 56:16 | | leaning back on them, facing one another. |
| 56:17 | | Immortal youths will stroll around them |
| 56:18 | | with glasses, pitchers, and a cup from a fountain |
| 56:19 | | which will not upset them nor dull their senses; |
| 56:20 | | and any fruit that they may choose, |
| 56:21 | | and the meat from any fowl they may desire; |
| 56:22 | | and bright-eyed damsels [chaste] just like treasured pearls, |
| 56:23 | | as a reward for what they have been doing. |
| 56:24 | | They will not hear any idle talk there nor any fault-finding, |
| 56:25 | | merely people saying: "Peace! Peace!" |
| 56:26 | | The Companions on the Right- |
| 56:27 | | what about the Companions on the Right? |
| 56:28 | | [They will be] among hawthoms trimmed of their thorns, |
| 56:29 | | and bananas piled bunch on bunch, |
| 56:30 | | with their shade spread out, |
| 56:31 | | water pouring forth, |
| 56:32 | | and plenty of fruit |
| 56:33 | | which is neither rationed nor forbidden, |
| 56:34 | | and padded furniture raised [off the floor]. |
| 56:35 | | We have produced special women |
| 56:36 | | and made them (ever) virgins, |
| 56:37 | | easy to get along with and of their same age, |
| 56:38 | | for the Companions on the Right, |
| 56:39 | | a multitude from early men |
| 56:40 | | as well as a multitude from later ones. |
| 56:41 | | The Companions on the Unlucky side, what about the Companions on the Left? |
| 56:42 | | In a scorching wind, scalding water, |
| 56:43 | | and the shade of pitch-black smoke, |
| 56:44 | | which is neither cool nor refreshing. |
| 56:45 | | They had been luxuriating before that happened |
| 56:46 | | and persisted in awesome blasphemy, |
| 56:47 | | and kept on saying: ´When we have died and become dust and bones, will we be raised up again? |
| 56:48 | | Along with our earliest forefathers?" |
| 56:49 | | SAY: "The earlier and the later ones |
| 56:50 | | will be gathered together for an appointment on a well-known day. |
| 56:51 | | Then you mistaken rejectors |
| 56:52 | | will be eating something from the Infernal Tree, |
| 56:53 | | filling (your) bellies with it |
| 56:54 | | and drinking scalding water in addition, |
| 56:55 | | lapping it up, the way thirsty [camels] drink." |
| 56:56 | | Such will be their fare on the Day for Repayment! |
| 56:57 | | We created you, if you would only acknowledge it. |
| 56:58 | | Have you ever considered what you emit? |
| 56:59 | | Did you create it, or are We its Creators? |
| 56:60 | | We have ordained death for (all of) you; no one will get ahead to prevent Us |
| 56:61 | | from changing your attributes, and transforming you into something you would never recognize. |
| 56:62 | | You know about the first transformation, if you will only recall it. |
| 56:63 | | Have you considered what you plant as crops? |
| 56:64 | | Do you farm it or are We the Farmers? |
| 56:65 | | If We so wished, We would turn it into chaff so you would do nothing but exclaim: |
| 56:66 | | "We are debt-ridden; |
| 56:67 | | in fact, we are destitute!" |
| 56:68 | | Have you ever considered the water you drink? |
| 56:69 | | Do you pour down from the rainclouds or are, We its Pourers? |
| 56:70 | | If We so wished, We might make it brackish. If you would only act grateful! |
| 56:71 | | Have you considered the Fire you kindle? |
| 56:72 | | Are you the ones who grow its trees [for firewood] or are We their Growers? |
| 56:73 | | We have granted it as a Reminder and enjoyment for those living in the wilderness. |
| 56:74 | | So celebrate your Lord´s almighty name! |
| 56:75 | | Yet I swear by the stars´ positions |
| 56:76 | | (it is a serious oath, if you only knew it!) |
| 56:77 | | that it is a Noble Quran |
| 56:78 | | [kept] as a treasured Book |
| 56:79 | | which none but the purified may touch, |
| 56:80 | | something sent down by the Lord of the Universe. |
| 56:81 | | Are you (all) trying to dodge this report? |
| 56:82 | | Are you making [the fact] that you reject it into your means of livelihood? |
| 56:83 | | Why not -when [your soul] leaps to your throat [at death] |
| 56:84 | | and you are then observing, |
| 56:85 | | (We are even Nearer to it than you are, even though you do not notice it)- |
| 56:86 | | provided you are not under any obligation, |
| 56:87 | | answer back if you are truthful...! |
| 56:88 | | Thus if he is one of those who are drawn close |
| 56:89 | | [he will have] contentment, fragrance, and a garden of bliss- |
| 56:90 | | while if he is one of the Companions on the Right: |
| 56:91 | | Peace be on you [will be the greeting) from the Companions on the Right. |
| 56:92 | | However if he is one of the mistaken rejectors |
| 56:93 | | a welcome of scalding water |
| 56:94 | | plus a roasting in Hades [will await him]. |
| 56:95 | | This is the absolute Truth; |
| 56:96 | | So celebrate our Lord´s almighty name! |
