| | John Medows Rodwell rendition of Surah The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming(al-Waqi`ah)
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| 56:1 | | WHEN the day that must come shall have come suddenly |
| 56:2 | | None shall treat that sudden coming as a lie |
| 56:3 | | Day that shall abase! Day that shall exalt |
| 56:4 | | When the earth shall be shaken with a shock |
| 56:5 | | And the mountains shall be crumbled with a crumbling |
| 56:6 | | And shall become scattered dust |
| 56:7 | | And into three bands shall ye be divided |
| 56:8 | | Then the people of the right hand - Oh! how happy shall be the people of the right hand |
| 56:9 | | And the people of the left hand - Oh! how wretched shall be the people of the left hand |
| 56:10 | | And they who were foremost on earth - the foremost still |
| 56:11 | | These are they who shall be brought nigh to God |
| 56:12 | | In gardens of delight |
| 56:13 | | A crowd of the forme |
| 56:14 | | And few of the latter generations |
| 56:15 | | On inwrought couche |
| 56:16 | | Reclining on them face to face |
| 56:17 | | Aye-blooming youths go round about to the |
| 56:18 | | With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine |
| 56:19 | | Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense |
| 56:20 | | And with such fruits as shall please them best |
| 56:21 | | And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for |
| 56:22 | | And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes |
| 56:23 | | like pearls hidden in their shells |
| 56:24 | | In recompense of their labours past |
| 56:25 | | No vain discourse shall they hear therein, nor charge of sin |
| 56:26 | | But only the cry, "Peace! Peace!" |
| 56:27 | | And the people of the right hand - oh! how happy shall be the people of the right hand |
| 56:28 | | Amid thornless sidrah |
| 56:29 | | And tall trees clad with fruit |
| 56:30 | | And in extended shade |
| 56:31 | | And by flowing waters |
| 56:32 | | And with abundant fruits |
| 56:33 | | Unfailing, unforbidden |
| 56:34 | | And on lofty couches |
| 56:35 | | Of a rare creation have we created the Houris |
| 56:36 | | And we have made them ever virgins |
| 56:37 | | Dear to their spouses, of equal age with them |
| 56:38 | | For the people of the right hand |
| 56:39 | | A crowd of the former |
| 56:40 | | And a crowd of the latter generations |
| 56:41 | | But the people of the left hand - oh! how wretched shall be the people of the left hand |
| 56:42 | | Amid pestilential winds and in scalding water |
| 56:43 | | And in the shadow of a black smoke |
| 56:44 | | Not cool, and horrid to behold |
| 56:45 | | For they truly, ere this, were blessed with worldly goods |
| 56:46 | | But persisted in heinous sin |
| 56:47 | | And were wont to say, "What! after we have died, and become dust and bones, shall we be raised |
| 56:48 | | And our fathers, the men of yore?" |
| 56:49 | | SAY: Aye, the former and the latter |
| 56:50 | | Gathered shall they all be for the time of a known day |
| 56:51 | | Then ye, O ye the erring, the gainsaying |
| 56:52 | | Shall surely eat of the tree Ez-zakkoum |
| 56:53 | | And fill your bellies with it |
| 56:54 | | And thereupon shall ye drink boiling water |
| 56:55 | | And ye shall drink as the thirsty camel drinketh |
| 56:56 | | This shall be their repast in the day of reckoning |
| 56:57 | | We created you, will ye not credit us |
| 56:58 | | What think ye? The germs of life |
| 56:59 | | Is it ye who create them? or are we their creator |
| 56:60 | | It is we who have decreed that death should be among you |
| 56:61 | | Yet are we not thereby hindered from replacing you with others, your likes, or from producing you again in a form which ye know not |
| 56:62 | | Ye have known the first creation: will ye not then reflect |
| 56:63 | | What think ye? That which ye sow |
| 56:64 | | Is it ye who cause its upgrowth, or do we cause it to spring forth |
| 56:65 | | If we pleased we could so make your harvest dry and brittle that ye would ever marvel and say |
| 56:66 | | "Truly we have been at cost |
| 56:67 | | yet are we forbidden harvest." |
| 56:68 | | What think ye of the water ye drink |
| 56:69 | | Is it ye who send it down from the clouds, or send we it down |
| 56:70 | | Brackish could we make it, if we pleased: will ye not then be thankful |
| 56:71 | | What think ye? The fire which ye obtain by friction |
| 56:72 | | Is it ye who rear its tree, or do we rear it |
| 56:73 | | It is we who have made it for a memorial and a benefit to the wayfarers of the desert |
| 56:74 | | Praise therefore the name of thy Lord, the Great |
| 56:75 | | It needs not that I swear by the setting of the stars |
| 56:76 | | And it is a great oath, if ye knew it |
| 56:77 | | That this is the honourable Koran |
| 56:78 | | Written in the preserved Book |
| 56:79 | | Let none touch it but the purified |
| 56:80 | | It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds |
| 56:81 | | Such tidings as these will ye disdain |
| 56:82 | | Will ye make it your daily bread to gainsay them |
| 56:83 | | Why, at the moment when the soul of a dying man shall come up into his throat |
| 56:84 | | And when ye are gazing at him |
| 56:85 | | Though we are nearer to him than ye, although ye see us not: |
| 56:86 | | Why do ye not, if ye are to escape the judgment |
| 56:87 | | Cause that soul to return? Tell me, if ye speak the truth |
| 56:88 | | But as to him who shall enjoy near access to God |
| 56:89 | | His shall be repose, and pleasure, and a garden of delights |
| 56:90 | | Yea, for him who shall be of the people of the right hand |
| 56:91 | | Shall be the greeting from the people of the right hand - "Peace be to thee." |
| 56:92 | | But for him who shall be of those who treat the prophets as deceivers, And of the erring |
| 56:93 | | His entertainment shall be of scalding water |
| 56:94 | | And the broiling of hell-fire |
| 56:95 | | Verily this is a certain truth |
| 56:96 | | Praise therefore the name of thy Lord, the Great |
