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Surah Al-Wāqi`ah (The Inevitable) in English

Surah Number : 56(96 Number of Verses)
Revelation
Meccan
Revelation order
46
Pages
534–537
Yuz
27

Prostrations

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Available Translations
  1. يطوف عليهم ولدان مخلدون

    17

    They will be waited upon by immortal youths,

    yaṭūfu ʿalayhim wildānun mukhalladūna

  2. بأكواب وأباريق وكأس من معين

    18

    with goblets and ewers and a cup of a clear wine,

    bi-ʾakwābin wa-ʾabārīqa wa-kaʾsin min maʿīnin

  3. لا يصدعون عنها ولا ينزفون

    19

    which causes them neither headache nor stupefaction,

    lā yuṣaddaʿūna ʿanhā wa-lā yunzifūna

  4. وفاكهة مما يتخيرون

    20

    and such fruits as they prefer

    wa-fākihatin mimmā yatakhayyarūna

  5. ولحم طير مما يشتهون

    21

    and such flesh of fowls as they desire,

    wa-laḥmi ṭayrin mimmā yashtahūna

  6. وحور عين

    22

    and big-eyed houris

    wa-ḥūrun ʿīnun

  7. كأمثال اللؤلؤ المكنون

    23

    like guarded pearls,

    ka-ʾamthāli l-luʾluʾi l-maknūni

  8. جزاء بما كانوا يعملون

    24

    a reward for what they used to do.

    jazāʾan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

  9. لا يسمعون فيها لغوا ولا تأثيما

    25

    They will not hear therein any vain talk or sinful speech,

    lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan wa-lā taʾthīman

  10. إلا قيلا سلاما سلاما

    26

    but only the watchword, ‘Peace!’ ‘Peace!’

    ʾillā qīlan salāman salāman

  11. وأصحاب اليمين ما أصحاب اليمين

    27

    And the People of the Right Hand—what are the People of the Right Hand?!

    wa-ʾaṣhābu l-yamīni mā ʾaṣhābu l-yamīni

  12. في سدر مخضود

    28

    Amid thornless lote trees

    fī sidrin makhḍūdin

  13. وطلح منضود

    29

    and clustered spathes

    wa-ṭalḥin manḍūdin

  14. وظل ممدود

    30

    and extended shade,

    wa-ẓillin mamdūdin

  15. وماء مسكوب

    31

    and ever-flowing water

    wa-māʾin maskūbin

  16. وفاكهة كثيرة

    32

    and abundant fruits,

    wa-fākihatin kathīratin

  17. لا مقطوعة ولا ممنوعة

    33

    neither inaccessible, nor forbidden,

    lā maqṭūʿatin wa-lā mamnūʿatin

  18. وفرش مرفوعة

    34

    and noble spouses.

    wa-furushin marfūʿatin

  19. إنا أنشأناهن إنشاء

    35

    We have created them with a special creation,

    ʾinnā ʾanshaʾnāhunna ʾinshāʾan

  20. فجعلناهن أبكارا

    36

    and made them virgins,

    fa-jaʿalnāhunna ʾabkāran

  21. عربا أترابا

    37

    loving, of a like age,

    ʿuruban ʾatrāban

  22. لأصحاب اليمين

    38

    for the People of the Right Hand.

    li-ʾaṣḥābi l-yamīni

  23. ثلة من الأولين

    39

    A multitude from the former [generations]

    thullatun mina l-ʾawwalīna

  24. وثلة من الآخرين

    40

    and a multitude from the latter [ones].

    wa-thullatun mina l-ʾākhirīna

  25. وأصحاب الشمال ما أصحاب الشمال

    41

    And the People of the Left Hand—what are the People of the Left Hand?!

    wa-ʾaṣḥābu sh-shimāli mā ʾaṣḥābu sh-shimāli

  26. في سموم وحميم

    42

    Amid infernal miasma and boiling water

    fī samūmin wa-ḥamīmin

  27. وظل من يحموم

    43

    and the shadow of a dense black smoke,

    wa-ẓillin min yaḥmūmin

  28. لا بارد ولا كريم

    44

    neither cool nor beneficial.

    lā bāridin wa-lā karīmin

  29. إنهم كانوا قبل ذلك مترفين

    45

    Indeed they had been affluent before this,

    ʾinnahum kānū qabla dhālika mutrafīna

  30. وكانوا يصرون على الحنث العظيم

    46

    and they used to persist in the great sin.

    wa-kānū yuṣirrūna ʿalā l-ḥinthi l-ʿaẓīmi

  31. وكانوا يقولون أئذا متنا وكنا ترابا وعظاما أإنا لمبعوثون

    47

    And they used to say, ‘What! When we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we be resurrected?!

    wa-kānū yaqūlūna ʾa-ʾidhā mitnā wa-kunnā turāban wa-ʿiẓāman ʾa-ʾinnā la-mabʿūthūna

  32. أوآباؤنا الأولون

    48

    And our forefathers too?!’

    ʾa-wa-ʾābāʾunā l-ʾawwalūna

  33. قل إن الأولين والآخرين

    49

    Say, ‘Indeed the former and latter generations

    qul ʾinna l-ʾawwalīna wa-l-ʾākhirīna

  34. لمجموعون إلى ميقات يوم معلوم

    50

    will all be gathered for the tryst of a known day.

    la-majmūʿūna ʾilā mīqāti yawmin maʿlūmin

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