IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Waqi`ah - The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming as rendered by
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
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.
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