| | Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar rendition of Surah The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming(al-Waqi`ah)
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| 56:1 | | When The Inevitable came to pass, |
| 56:2 | | its descent is not like that which lies. |
| 56:3 | | It will be one that abases, one that exalts. |
| 56:4 | | When the earth will rock with a rocking |
| 56:5 | | and the mountains be crumbled to dust, crumbling, |
| 56:6 | | then, they had been dust scattered about. |
| 56:7 | | And you had been of three diverse pairs. |
| 56:8 | | Then, the Companions of the Right—who are the Companions of the Right? |
| 56:9 | | And the Companions of the Left—who are Companions of the Left? |
| 56:10 | | Ones who take the lead are the ones who take the lead. |
| 56:11 | | Those are the ones who are brought near |
| 56:12 | | in the Gardens of Bliss. |
| 56:13 | | A throng of the ancient ones |
| 56:14 | | and a few of the later ones |
| 56:15 | | are on lined couches, |
| 56:16 | | ones who are reclining on them, ones who are facing one another. |
| 56:17 | | Immortal children go around them |
| 56:18 | | with cups and ewers and goblets from a spring of water. |
| 56:19 | | Neither will they suffer headaches nor will they be intoxicated, |
| 56:20 | | and sweet fruit of what they specify |
| 56:21 | | and the flesh of birds for which they lust |
| 56:22 | | and most beautiful eyed ones, |
| 56:23 | | like the parable of the well-guarded pearls, |
| 56:24 | | a recompense for what they had been doing. |
| 56:25 | | They will not hear any idle talk in it nor accusation of sinfulness, |
| 56:26 | | but the saying of: Peace! Peace! |
| 56:27 | | And the Companions of the Right—who are the Companions of the Right? |
| 56:28 | | They will be among thornless lote-trees |
| 56:29 | | and acacias, one on another, |
| 56:30 | | and spread out shade |
| 56:31 | | and outpoured water |
| 56:32 | | and many sweet fruit. |
| 56:33 | | There will be neither that which is severed nor that which is inaccessible. |
| 56:34 | | And it is an exalted place of restfulness. |
| 56:35 | | Truly, We caused them (f) to grow, a good forming, |
| 56:36 | | and made them (f) virgins, |
| 56:37 | | full of love, of the same age, |
| 56:38 | | for the Companions of the Right. |
| 56:39 | | A throng of the ancient ones |
| 56:40 | | and a throng from the later ones, |
| 56:41 | | and the Companions of the Left—who are the Companions of the Left? |
| 56:42 | | Those who are in burning wind and scalding water |
| 56:43 | | and shade of black smoke |
| 56:44 | | neither that which is cool nor generous. |
| 56:45 | | Truly, they had been before that ones who are given ease |
| 56:46 | | and they had been persisting in tremendous wickedness. |
| 56:47 | | And they had been saying: When we died and had been earth dust and bones, will we, then, be ones who are raised up? |
| 56:48 | | And our ancient fathers? |
| 56:49 | | Say: Truly, the ancient ones and the later ones |
| 56:50 | | will be ones who will be gathered to a time appointed on a known Day. |
| 56:51 | | Again, you, O ones who go astray, are the ones who deny. |
| 56:52 | | Certainly, you will be ones who eat from the Zaqqum tree. |
| 56:53 | | Then, you will be ones who fill your bellies from it, |
| 56:54 | | then, ones who drink scalding water after it. |
| 56:55 | | So you will be ones who drink like the drinking of thirsty camels. |
| 56:56 | | This will be their hospitality on the Day of Judgment! |
| 56:57 | | We, We created you. Why establish it not as true? |
| 56:58 | | Considered you what you spill of human seed? |
| 56:59 | | Is it you who create it? Or are We the ones who are the creators? |
| 56:60 | | We ordained death among you and We will not be ones who will be outrun |
| 56:61 | | in that We will substitute your likeness and We caused you to grow in a way you know not. |
| 56:62 | | And, certainly, you knew the first growth. Will you not, then, recollect? |
| 56:63 | | Considered you the soil that you till? |
| 56:64 | | Is it you who sows it? Or are We the ones who sow? |
| 56:65 | | If We will, We would make it into chaff and you would continue to joke saying: |
| 56:66 | | We are ones who are debt-loaded! |
| 56:67 | | Nay! We are ones who are deprived. |
| 56:68 | | Considered you the water that you drink? |
| 56:69 | | Is it you who caused it to descend from the cloud vapors? Or are We the ones who caused it to descend? |
| 56:70 | | If We will, We would make it bitter. Why, then, give you not thanks? |
| 56:71 | | Considered you the fire which you strike? |
| 56:72 | | Is it you who caused the tree to grow? Or are We the ones who cause it to grow? |
| 56:73 | | We made it an admonition and sustenance for ones who are desert people. |
| 56:74 | | Then, glorify with the name of thy Lord, The Sublime. |
| 56:75 | | But no! I swear by the orbit of the stars |
| 56:76 | | and, truly, that is an oath to be sworn if you know, sublime. |
| 56:77 | | Truly, it is a generous Recitation |
| 56:78 | | in a well-guarded Book. |
| 56:79 | | None touches it but the ones who are purified, |
| 56:80 | | a sending down successively from the Lord of the worlds. |
| 56:81 | | Then, is it this discourse that you are ones who scorn? |
| 56:82 | | And you make it your provision that you, you deny the Recitation. |
| 56:83 | | Then, why not intervene when it reached the wind-pipe |
| 56:84 | | and you are looking on at the time? |
| 56:85 | | And We are nearer to him than you, yet you perceive not. |
| 56:86 | | Then, why had you not been—if you are not ones to be judged— |
| 56:87 | | returning the soul to the body, if you had been ones who are sincere? |
| 56:88 | | If he had been among the ones who are brought near, |
| 56:89 | | there is solace and fragrant herbs and a Garden of Bliss. |
| 56:90 | | And if he had been of the Companions of the Right, |
| 56:91 | | then: Peace for thee from the Companions of the Right. |
| 56:92 | | And yet if he had been of the ones who go astray, ones who deny, |
| 56:93 | | then, a hospitality of scalding water |
| 56:94 | | and broiling in hellfire. |
| 56:95 | | Truly, this is The Truth of certainty. |
| 56:96 | | So glorify the Name of thy Lord, The Almighty. |
