The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming — Rashad Khalifa Translation – Parallel Quran

1 Three Classes of Men

۞ إِذَا وَقَعَتِ ٱلۡوَاقِعَةُ ۝١

When the inevitable comes to pass.

idhā waqaʿati l-wāqiʿat

لَیۡسَ لِوَقۡعَتِهَا كَاذِبَةٌ ۝٢

Nothing can stop it from happening.

laysa liwaqʿatihā kādhibatu

خَافِضَةࣱ رَّافِعَةٌ ۝٣

It will lower some, and raise others.

khāfiḍatun rāfiʿatu

إِذَا رُجَّتِ ٱلۡأَرۡضُ رَجࣰّا ۝٤

The earth will be shaken up.

idhā rujjati l-arḍu rajja

وَبُسَّتِ ٱلۡجِبَالُ بَسࣰّا ۝٥

The mountains will be wiped out.

wabussati l-jibālu bassa

فَكَانَتۡ هَبَاۤءࣰ مُّنۢبَثࣰّا ۝٦

As if they never existed.

fakānat habāan munbatha

وَكُنتُمۡ أَزۡوَ ٰجࣰا ثَلَـٰثَةࣰ ۝٧

You will be stratified into three kinds.

wakuntum azwājan thalāthata

فَأَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡمَیۡمَنَةِ مَاۤ أَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡمَیۡمَنَةِ ۝٨

Those who deserved bliss will be in bliss.

fa-aṣḥābu l-maymanati mā aṣḥābu l-maymanat

وَأَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡمَشۡءَمَةِ مَاۤ أَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡمَشۡءَمَةِ ۝٩

Those who deserved misery will be in misery.

wa-aṣḥābu l-mashamati mā aṣḥābu l-mashamat

وَٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ۝١٠

Then there is the elite of the elite.

wal-sābiqūna l-sābiqūn

أُو۟لَـٰۤىِٕكَ ٱلۡمُقَرَّبُونَ ۝١١

They are those who will be closest (to God).

ulāika l-muqarabūn

فِی جَنَّـٰتِ ٱلنَّعِیمِ ۝١٢

In the gardens of bliss.

fī jannāti l-naʿīm

ثُلَّةࣱ مِّنَ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ۝١٣

Many from the first generations.

thullatun mina l-awalīn

وَقَلِیلࣱ مِّنَ ٱلۡءَاخِرِینَ ۝١٤

Few from the later generations.

waqalīlun mina l-ākhirīn

عَلَىٰ سُرُرࣲ مَّوۡضُونَةࣲ ۝١٥

On luxurious furnishings.

muttakiīna ʿalayhā mutaqābilīn

مُّتَّكِءِینَ عَلَیۡهَا مُتَقَـٰبِلِینَ ۝١٦

Enjoying everything, they will be neighbors.

Muttaki-eena AAalayha mutaqabileena

یَطُوفُ عَلَیۡهِمۡ وِلۡدَ ٰنࣱ مُّخَلَّدُونَ ۝١٧

Serving them will be immortal servants.

yaṭūfu ʿalayhim wil'dānun mukhalladūn

بِأَكۡوَابࣲ وَأَبَارِیقَ وَكَأۡسࣲ مِّن مَّعِینࣲ ۝١٨

With cups, pitchers and pure drinks.

bi-akwābin wa-abārīqa wakasin min maʿīni

لَّا یُصَدَّعُونَ عَنۡهَا وَلَا یُنزِفُونَ ۝١٩

They never run out, nor do they get bored.

lā yuṣaddaʿūna ʿanhā walā yunzifūn

وَفَـٰكِهَةࣲ مِّمَّا یَتَخَیَّرُونَ ۝٢٠

Fruits of their choice.

wafākihatin mimmā yatakhayyarūn

وَلَحۡمِ طَیۡرࣲ مِّمَّا یَشۡتَهُونَ ۝٢١

Meat of birds that they desire.

walaḥmi ṭayrin mimmā yashtahūn

وَحُورٌ عِینࣱ ۝٢٢

Beautiful mates.

waḥūrun ʿīnu

كَأَمۡثَـٰلِ ٱللُّؤۡلُوِٕ ٱلۡمَكۡنُونِ ۝٢٣

Like protected pearls.

ka-amthāli l-lu'lu-i l-maknūn

جَزَاۤءَۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ یَعۡمَلُونَ ۝٢٤

Rewards for their works.

jazāan bimā kānū yaʿmalūn

لَا یَسۡمَعُونَ فِیهَا لَغۡوࣰا وَلَا تَأۡثِیمًا ۝٢٥

They never hear any nonsense therein, nor sinful utterances.

lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan walā tathīma

إِلَّا قِیلࣰا سَلَـٰمࣰا سَلَـٰمࣰا ۝٢٦

Only the utterance: "Peace, peace."

illā qīlan salāman salāma

وَأَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡیَمِینِ مَاۤ أَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلۡیَمِینِ ۝٢٧

Those of the right side, will be on the right side.

wa-aṣḥābu l-yamīni mā aṣḥābu l-yamīn

فِی سِدۡرࣲ مَّخۡضُودࣲ ۝٢٨

In lush orchards

fī sid'rin makhḍūdi

وَطَلۡحࣲ مَّنضُودࣲ ۝٢٩

Fragrant fruits.

waṭalḥin manḍūdi

وَظِلࣲّ مَّمۡدُودࣲ ۝٣٠

Extended shade.

waẓillin mamdūdi

وَمَاۤءࣲ مَّسۡكُوبࣲ ۝٣١

Abundant water.

wamāin maskūbi

وَفَـٰكِهَةࣲ كَثِیرَةࣲ ۝٣٢

wafākihatin kathīrati

لَّا مَقۡطُوعَةࣲ وَلَا مَمۡنُوعَةࣲ ۝٣٣

Never ending; never forbidden.

lā maqṭūʿatin walā mamnūʿati

وَفُرُشࣲ مَّرۡفُوعَةٍ ۝٣٤

Luxurious furnishings.

wafurushin marfūʿati

إِنَّاۤ أَنشَأۡنَـٰهُنَّ إِنشَاۤءࣰ ۝٣٥

We create for them mates.

innā anshanāhunna inshāa

فَجَعَلۡنَـٰهُنَّ أَبۡكَارًا ۝٣٦

Never previously touched.

fajaʿalnāhunna abkāra

عُرُبًا أَتۡرَابࣰا ۝٣٧

Perfectly matched.

li-aṣḥābi l-yamīn

لِّأَصۡحَـٰبِ ٱلۡیَمِینِ ۝٣٨

For those on the right side.

Li-as-habi alyameeni

2 The Guilty

ثُلَّةࣱ مِّنَ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ۝٣٩

Many from the early generations.

thullatun mina l-awalīn

وَثُلَّةࣱ مِّنَ ٱلۡءَاخِرِینَ ۝٤٠

Many from the later generations.

wathullatun mina l-ākhirīn

وَأَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ مَاۤ أَصۡحَـٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ ۝٤١

Those of the left, will be on the left.

wa-aṣḥābu l-shimāli mā aṣḥābu l-shimāl

فِی سَمُومࣲ وَحَمِیمࣲ ۝٤٢

In misery and inferno.

fī samūmin waḥamīmi

وَظِلࣲّ مِّن یَحۡمُومࣲ ۝٤٣

Even their shade is hot.

waẓillin min yaḥmūmi

لَّا بَارِدࣲ وَلَا كَرِیمٍ ۝٤٤

Never cool, never tolerable.

lā bāridin walā karīmi

إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُوا۟ قَبۡلَ ذَ ٰلِكَ مُتۡرَفِینَ ۝٤٥

They used to be rich.

innahum kānū qabla dhālika mut'rafīn

وَكَانُوا۟ یُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلۡحِنثِ ٱلۡعَظِیمِ ۝٤٦

They insisted on the great blasphemy.

wakānū yuṣirrūna ʿalā l-ḥinthi l-ʿaẓīm

وَكَانُوا۟ یَقُولُونَ أَىِٕذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابࣰا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ ۝٤٧

They said, "After we die and turn to dust and bones, we get resurrected?

wakānū yaqūlūna a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman a-innā lamabʿūthūn

أَوَ ءَابَاۤؤُنَا ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ ۝٤٨

"Does this include our forefathers?"

awaābāunā l-awalūn

قُلۡ إِنَّ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ وَٱلۡءَاخِرِینَ ۝٤٩

Say, "The early generations and the later generations.

qul inna l-awalīna wal-ākhirīn

لَمَجۡمُوعُونَ إِلَىٰ مِیقَـٰتِ یَوۡمࣲ مَّعۡلُومࣲ ۝٥٠

"Will be summoned to a meeting on a predetermined day.

lamajmūʿūna ilā mīqāti yawmin maʿlūmi

ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمۡ أَیُّهَا ٱلضَّاۤلُّونَ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبُونَ ۝٥١

"Then you, O disbelieving strayers.

thumma innakum ayyuhā l-ḍālūna l-mukadhibūn

لَءَاكِلُونَ مِن شَجَرࣲ مِّن زَقُّومࣲ ۝٥٢

"Will eat from the trees of bitterness.

laākilūna min shajarin min zaqqūmi

فَمَالِءُونَ مِنۡهَا ٱلۡبُطُونَ ۝٥٣

"Filling your bellies therefrom.

famāliūna min'hā l-buṭūn

فَشَـٰرِبُونَ عَلَیۡهِ مِنَ ٱلۡحَمِیمِ ۝٥٤

"Then drinking on top of it hellish drinks.

fashāribūna ʿalayhi mina l-ḥamīm

فَشَـٰرِبُونَ شُرۡبَ ٱلۡهِیمِ ۝٥٥

"Then adding drinks of sand."

fashāribūna shur'ba l-hīm

هَـٰذَا نُزُلُهُمۡ یَوۡمَ ٱلدِّینِ ۝٥٦

Such is their share on the Day of Judgment.

hādhā nuzuluhum yawma l-dīn

نَحۡنُ خَلَقۡنَـٰكُمۡ فَلَوۡلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ ۝٥٧

We have created you, if you could only believe!

naḥnu khalaqnākum falawlā tuṣaddiqūn

أَفَرَءَیۡتُم مَّا تُمۡنُونَ ۝٥٨

Have you noted the semen that you produce?

afara-aytum mā tum'nūn

ءَأَنتُمۡ تَخۡلُقُونَهُۥۤ أَمۡ نَحۡنُ ٱلۡخَـٰلِقُونَ ۝٥٩

Did you create it, or did we?

a-antum takhluqūnahu am naḥnu l-khāliqūn

نَحۡنُ قَدَّرۡنَا بَیۡنَكُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ وَمَا نَحۡنُ بِمَسۡبُوقِینَ ۝٦٠

We have predetermined death for you. Nothing can stop us -

naḥnu qaddarnā baynakumu l-mawta wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīn

عَلَىٰۤ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ أَمۡثَـٰلَكُمۡ وَنُنشِئَكُمۡ فِی مَا لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ ۝٦١

from substituting new generations in your place, and establishing what you do not know.

walaqad ʿalim'tumu l-nashata l-ūlā falawlā tadhakkarūn

وَلَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتُمُ ٱلنَّشۡأَةَ ٱلۡأُولَىٰ فَلَوۡلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ ۝٦٢

You know about the first creation. Do you not remember?

Walaqad AAalimtumu alnnash-ata al-oola falawla tathakkaroona

أَفَرَءَیۡتُم مَّا تَحۡرُثُونَ ۝٦٣

Have you noted the crops you reap?

afara-aytum mā taḥruthūn

ءَأَنتُمۡ تَزۡرَعُونَهُۥۤ أَمۡ نَحۡنُ ٱلزَّ ٰرِعُونَ ۝٦٤

Did you grow them, or did we?

a-antum tazraʿūnahu am naḥnu l-zāriʿūn

لَوۡ نَشَاۤءُ لَجَعَلۡنَـٰهُ حُطَـٰمࣰا فَظَلۡتُمۡ تَفَكَّهُونَ ۝٦٥

If we will, we can turn it into hay. Then you will lament:

law nashāu lajaʿalnāhu ḥuṭāman faẓaltum tafakkahūn

إِنَّا لَمُغۡرَمُونَ ۝٦٦

innā lamugh'ramūn

بَلۡ نَحۡنُ مَحۡرُومُونَ ۝٦٧

"We are deprived."

bal naḥnu maḥrūmūn

أَفَرَءَیۡتُمُ ٱلۡمَاۤءَ ٱلَّذِی تَشۡرَبُونَ ۝٦٨

Have you noted the water you drink?

afara-aytumu l-māa alladhī tashrabūn

ءَأَنتُمۡ أَنزَلۡتُمُوهُ مِنَ ٱلۡمُزۡنِ أَمۡ نَحۡنُ ٱلۡمُنزِلُونَ ۝٦٩

Did you send it down from the clouds, or did we?

a-antum anzaltumūhu mina l-muz'ni am naḥnu l-munzilūn

لَوۡ نَشَاۤءُ جَعَلۡنَـٰهُ أُجَاجࣰا فَلَوۡلَا تَشۡكُرُونَ ۝٧٠

If we will, we can make it salty. You should be thankful.

law nashāu jaʿalnāhu ujājan falawlā tashkurūn

أَفَرَءَیۡتُمُ ٱلنَّارَ ٱلَّتِی تُورُونَ ۝٧١

Have you noted the fire you ignite?

afara-aytumu l-nāra allatī tūrūn

ءَأَنتُمۡ أَنشَأۡتُمۡ شَجَرَتَهَاۤ أَمۡ نَحۡنُ ٱلۡمُنشِءُونَ ۝٧٢

Did you initiate its tree, or did we?

a-antum anshatum shajaratahā am naḥnu l-munshiūn

نَحۡنُ جَعَلۡنَـٰهَا تَذۡكِرَةࣰ وَمَتَـٰعࣰا لِّلۡمُقۡوِینَ ۝٧٣

We rendered it a reminder, and a useful tool for the users.

naḥnu jaʿalnāhā tadhkiratan wamatāʿan lil'muq'wīn

فَسَبِّحۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلۡعَظِیمِ ۝٧٤

You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.

fasabbiḥ bi-is'mi rabbika l-ʿaẓīm

3 Judgment is Inevitable

۞ فَلَاۤ أُقۡسِمُ بِمَوَ ٰقِعِ ٱلنُّجُومِ ۝٧٥

I swear by the positions of the stars.

falā uq'simu bimawāqiʿi l-nujūm

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَقَسَمࣱ لَّوۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ عَظِیمٌ ۝٧٦

This is an oath, if you only knew, that is awesome.

wa-innahu laqasamun law taʿlamūna ʿaẓīmu

إِنَّهُۥ لَقُرۡءَانࣱ كَرِیمࣱ ۝٧٧

This is an honorable Quran.

innahu laqur'ānun karīmu

فِی كِتَـٰبࣲ مَّكۡنُونࣲ ۝٧٨

In a protected book.

fī kitābin maknūni

لَّا یَمَسُّهُۥۤ إِلَّا ٱلۡمُطَهَّرُونَ ۝٧٩

None can grasp it except the sincere.

lā yamassuhu illā l-muṭaharūn

تَنزِیلࣱ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلۡعَـٰلَمِینَ ۝٨٠

A revelation from the Lord of the universe.

tanzīlun min rabbi l-ʿālamīn

أَفَبِهَـٰذَا ٱلۡحَدِیثِ أَنتُم مُّدۡهِنُونَ ۝٨١

Are you disregarding this narration?

afabihādhā l-ḥadīthi antum mud'hinūn

وَتَجۡعَلُونَ رِزۡقَكُمۡ أَنَّكُمۡ تُكَذِّبُونَ ۝٨٢

Do you make it your business that you disbelieve?

watajʿalūna riz'qakum annakum tukadhibūn

فَلَوۡلَاۤ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلۡحُلۡقُومَ ۝٨٣

When the time comes and it (your soul) reaches your throat -

falawlā idhā balaghati l-ḥul'qūm

وَأَنتُمۡ حِینَىِٕذࣲ تَنظُرُونَ ۝٨٤

you will then look around.

wa-antum ḥīna-idhin tanẓurūn

وَنَحۡنُ أَقۡرَبُ إِلَیۡهِ مِنكُمۡ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تُبۡصِرُونَ ۝٨٥

We are closer to it than you are, but you do not see.

wanaḥnu aqrabu ilayhi minkum walākin lā tub'ṣirūn

فَلَوۡلَاۤ إِن كُنتُمۡ غَیۡرَ مَدِینِینَ ۝٨٦

If it is true that you do not owe any accounting -

falawlā in kuntum ghayra madīnīn

تَرۡجِعُونَهَاۤ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَـٰدِقِینَ ۝٨٧

why do you not restore (your soul), if you are truthful?

tarjiʿūnahā in kuntum ṣādiqīn

فَأَمَّاۤ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُقَرَّبِینَ ۝٨٨

If he is one of those close to Me -

fa-ammā in kāna mina l-muqarabīn

فَرَوۡحࣱ وَرَیۡحَانࣱ وَجَنَّتُ نَعِیمࣲ ۝٨٩

then joy, flowers, and gardens of bliss.

farawḥun warayḥānun wajannatu naʿīmi

وَأَمَّاۤ إِن كَانَ مِنۡ أَصۡحَـٰبِ ٱلۡیَمِینِ ۝٩٠

And if he is one of the right -

wa-ammā in kāna min aṣḥābi l-yamīn

فَسَلَـٰمࣱ لَّكَ مِنۡ أَصۡحَـٰبِ ٱلۡیَمِینِ ۝٩١

peace is the lot of those on the right.

fasalāmun laka min aṣḥābi l-yamīn

وَأَمَّاۤ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِینَ ٱلضَّاۤلِّینَ ۝٩٢

But if he is one of the disbelievers, the strayers -

wa-ammā in kāna mina l-mukadhibīna l-ḍālīn

فَنُزُلࣱ مِّنۡ حَمِیمࣲ ۝٩٣

then an abode of inferno -

fanuzulun min ḥamīmi

وَتَصۡلِیَةُ جَحِیمٍ ۝٩٤

and burning in Hell.

wataṣliyatu jaḥīmi

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَهُوَ حَقُّ ٱلۡیَقِینِ ۝٩٥

This is the absolute truth.

inna hādhā lahuwa ḥaqqu l-yaqīn

فَسَبِّحۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلۡعَظِیمِ ۝٩٦

You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.

fasabbiḥ bi-is'mi rabbika l-ʿaẓīm

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