56. Al-Waaqia

56:1

إِذَا وَقَعَتِ ٱلْوَاقِعَةُ ﴿١﴾

Idhā waqaʿati al-wāqiʿah

When the event befalleth -

56:2

لَيْسَ لِوَقْعَتِهَا كَاذِبَةٌ ﴿٢﴾

Laysa liwaqʿatihā kādhibah

There is no denying that it will befall -

56:3

خَافِضَةٌ رَّافِعَةٌ ﴿٣﴾

Khāfiḍatun rāfiʿah

Abasing (some), exalting (others);

56:4

إِذَا رُجَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ رَجًّا ﴿٤﴾

Idhā rujjati al-arḍu rajjā

When the earth is shaken with a shock

56:5

وَبُسَّتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ بَسًّا ﴿٥﴾

Wabussati al-jibālu bassā

And the hills are ground to powder

56:6

فَكَانَتْ هَبَآءً مُّنۢبَثًّا ﴿٦﴾

Fakānat habāʾan munbaththā

So that they become a scattered dust,

56:7

وَكُنتُمْ أَزْوَٰجًا ثَلَـٰثَةً ﴿٧﴾

Wakuntum azwājan thalāthah

And ye will be three kinds:

56:8

فَأَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ مَآ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَيْمَنَةِ ﴿٨﴾

Faʾaṣḥābu al-maymanati mā aṣḥābu al-maymanah

(First) those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand?

56:9

وَأَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ مَآ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ ﴿٩﴾

Waʾaṣḥābu al-mashʾamati mā aṣḥābu al-mashʾamah

And (then) those on the left hand; what of those on the left hand?

56:10

وَٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ٱلسَّـٰبِقُونَ ﴿١٠﴾

Was-sābiqūna as-sābiqūn

And the foremost in the race, the foremost in the race:

56:11

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ ﴿١١﴾

Ulāʾika al-muqarrabūn

Those are they who will be brought nigh

56:12

فِى جَنَّـٰتِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ﴿١٢﴾

Fī jannāti an-naʿīm

In gardens of delight;

56:13

ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴿١٣﴾

Thullatun mina al-awwalīn

A multitude of those of old

56:14

وَقَلِيلٌ مِّنَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِينَ ﴿١٤﴾

Waqalīlun mina al-ākhirīn

And a few of those of later time.

56:15

عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مَّوْضُونَةٍ ﴿١٥﴾

ʿalā sururin mawḍūnah

On lined couches,

56:16

مُّتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَيْهَا مُتَقَـٰبِلِينَ ﴿١٦﴾

Muttakiʾīna ʿalayhā mutaqābilīn

Reclining therein face to face.

56:17

يَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَٰنٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَ ﴿١٧﴾

Yaṭūfu ʿalayhim wildānun mukhalladūn

There wait on them immortal youths

56:18

بِأَكْوَابٍ وَأَبَارِيقَ وَكَأْسٍ مِّن مَّعِينٍ ﴿١٨﴾

Biʾakwābin waʾabārīqa wakaʾsin min maʿīn

With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring

56:19

لَّا يُصَدَّعُونَ عَنْهَا وَلَا يُنزِفُونَ ﴿١٩﴾

Lā yuṣaddaʿūna ʿanhā walā yunzifūn

Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness,

56:20

وَفَـٰكِهَةٍ مِّمَّا يَتَخَيَّرُونَ ﴿٢٠﴾

Wafākihatin mimmā yatakhayyarūn

And fruit that they prefer

56:21

وَلَحْمِ طَيْرٍ مِّمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ ﴿٢١﴾

Walaḥmi ṭayrin mimmā yashtahūn

And flesh of fowls that they desire.

56:22

وَحُورٌ عِينٌ ﴿٢٢﴾

Waḥūrun ʿīn

And (there are) fair ones with wide, lovely eyes,

56:23

كَأَمْثَـٰلِ ٱللُّؤْلُؤِ ٱلْمَكْنُونِ ﴿٢٣﴾

Kaʾamthāli alluʾluʾi al-maknūn

Like unto hidden pearls,

56:24

جَزَآءًۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ﴿٢٤﴾

Jazāʾan bimā kānū yaʿmalūn

Reward for what they used to do.

56:25

لَا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا تَأْثِيمًا ﴿٢٥﴾

Lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan walā taʾthīmā

There hear they no vain speaking nor recrimination

56:26

إِلَّا قِيلًا سَلَـٰمًا سَلَـٰمًا ﴿٢٦﴾

Illā qīlan salāman salāmā

(Naught) but the saying: Peace, (and again) Peace.

56:27

وَأَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْيَمِينِ مَآ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٢٧﴾

Waʾaṣḥābu al-yamīni mā aṣḥābu al-yamīn

And those on the right hand; what of those on the right hand?

56:28

فِى سِدْرٍ مَّخْضُودٍ ﴿٢٨﴾

Fī sidrin makhḍūd

Among thornless lote-trees

56:29

وَطَلْحٍ مَّنضُودٍ ﴿٢٩﴾

Waṭalḥin manḍūd

And clustered plantains,

56:30

وَظِلٍّ مَّمْدُودٍ ﴿٣٠﴾

Waẓillin mamdūd

And spreading shade,

56:31

وَمَآءٍ مَّسْكُوبٍ ﴿٣١﴾

Wamāʾin maskūb

And water gushing,

56:32

وَفَـٰكِهَةٍ كَثِيرَةٍ ﴿٣٢﴾

Wafākihatin kathīrah

And fruit in plenty

56:33

لَّا مَقْطُوعَةٍ وَلَا مَمْنُوعَةٍ ﴿٣٣﴾

Lā maqṭūʿatin walā mamnūʿah

Neither out of reach nor yet forbidden,

56:34

وَفُرُشٍ مَّرْفُوعَةٍ ﴿٣٤﴾

Wafurushin marfūʿah

And raised couches;

56:35

إِنَّآ أَنشَأْنَـٰهُنَّ إِنشَآءً ﴿٣٥﴾

Innā anshaʾnāhunna inshāʾā

Lo! We have created them a (new) creation

56:36

فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُنَّ أَبْكَارًا ﴿٣٦﴾

Fajaʿalnāhunna abkārā

And made them virgins,

56:37

عُرُبًا أَتْرَابًا ﴿٣٧﴾

ʿuruban atrābā

Lovers, friends,

56:38

لِّأَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٣٨﴾

Liʾaṣḥābi al-yamīn

For those on the right hand;

56:39

ثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴿٣٩﴾

Thullatun mina al-awwalīn

A multitude of those of old

56:40

وَثُلَّةٌ مِّنَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِينَ ﴿٤٠﴾

Wathullatun mina al-ākhirīn

And a multitude of those of later time.

56:41

وَأَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ مَآ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ ﴿٤١﴾

Waʾaṣḥābu ash-shimāli mā aṣḥābu ash-shimāl

And those on the left hand: What of those on the left hand?

56:42

فِى سَمُومٍ وَحَمِيمٍ ﴿٤٢﴾

Fī samūmin waḥamīm

In scorching wind and scalding water

56:43

وَظِلٍّ مِّن يَحْمُومٍ ﴿٤٣﴾

Waẓillin min yaḥmūm

And shadow of black smoke,

56:44

لَّا بَارِدٍ وَلَا كَرِيمٍ ﴿٤٤﴾

Lā bāridin walā karīm

Neither cool nor refreshing.

56:45

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتْرَفِينَ ﴿٤٥﴾

Innahum kānū qabla dhālika mutrafīn

Lo! heretofore they were effete with luxury

56:46

وَكَانُوا۟ يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلْحِنثِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٤٦﴾

Wakānū yuṣirrūna ʿalā al-ḥinthi al-ʿaẓīm

And used to persist in the awful sin.

56:47

وَكَانُوا۟ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ﴿٤٧﴾

Wakānū yaqūlūna aʾidhā mitnā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman aʾinnā lamabʿūthūn

And they used to say: When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised again,

56:48

أَوَءَابَآؤُنَا ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ ﴿٤٨﴾

Awaʾābāʾunā al-awwalūn

And also our forefathers?

56:49

قُلْ إِنَّ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ وَٱلْـَٔاخِرِينَ ﴿٤٩﴾

Qul inna al-awwalīna wal-ākhirīn

Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Lo! those of old and those of later time

56:50

لَمَجْمُوعُونَ إِلَىٰ مِيقَـٰتِ يَوْمٍ مَّعْلُومٍ ﴿٥٠﴾

Lamajmūʿūna ilā mīqāti yawmin maʿlūm

Will all be brought together to the tryst of an appointed day.

56:51

ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلضَّآلُّونَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبُونَ ﴿٥١﴾

Thumma innakum ayyuhā aḍ-ḍāllūna al-mukadhdhibūn

Then lo! ye, the erring, the deniers,

56:52

لَـَٔاكِلُونَ مِن شَجَرٍ مِّن زَقُّومٍ ﴿٥٢﴾

Laʾākilūna min shajarin min zaqqūm

Ye verily will eat of a tree called Zaqqum

56:53

فَمَالِـُٔونَ مِنْهَا ٱلْبُطُونَ ﴿٥٣﴾

Famāliʾūna minhā al-buṭūn

And will fill your bellies therewith;

56:54

فَشَـٰرِبُونَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ ٱلْحَمِيمِ ﴿٥٤﴾

Fashāribūna ʿalayhi mina al-ḥamīm

And thereon ye will drink of boiling water,

56:55

فَشَـٰرِبُونَ شُرْبَ ٱلْهِيمِ ﴿٥٥﴾

Fashāribūna shurba al-hīm

Drinking even as the camel drinketh.

56:56

هَـٰذَا نُزُلُهُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿٥٦﴾

Hādhā nuzuluhum yawma ad-dīn

This will be their welcome on the Day of Judgment.

56:57

نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ فَلَوْلَا تُصَدِّقُونَ ﴿٥٧﴾

Naḥnu khalaqnākum falawlā tuṣaddiqūn

We created you. Will ye then admit the truth?

56:58

أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تُمْنُونَ ﴿٥٨﴾

Afaraʾaytum mā tumnūn

Have ye seen that which ye emit?

56:59

ءَأَنتُمْ تَخْلُقُونَهُۥٓ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْخَـٰلِقُونَ ﴿٥٩﴾

Aʾantum takhluqūnahu am naḥnu al-khāliqūn

Do ye create it or are We the Creator?

56:60

نَحْنُ قَدَّرْنَا بَيْنَكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ ﴿٦٠﴾

Naḥnu qaddarnā baynakumu al-mawta wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīn

We mete out death among you, and We are not to be outrun,

56:61

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ أَمْثَـٰلَكُمْ وَنُنشِئَكُمْ فِى مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٦١﴾

ʿalā an nubaddila amthālakum wanunshiʾakum fī mā lā taʿlamūn

That We may transfigure you and make you what ye know not.

56:62

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ ٱلنَّشْأَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ فَلَوْلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ ﴿٦٢﴾

Walaqad ʿalimtumu an-nashʾata al-ulā falawlā tadhakkarūn

And verily ye know the first creation. Why, then, do ye not reflect?

56:63

أَفَرَءَيْتُم مَّا تَحْرُثُونَ ﴿٦٣﴾

Afaraʾaytum mā taḥruthūn

Have ye seen that which ye cultivate?

56:64

ءَأَنتُمْ تَزْرَعُونَهُۥٓ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلزَّٰرِعُونَ ﴿٦٤﴾

Aʾantum tazraʿūnahu am naḥnu az-zāriʿūn

Is it ye who foster it, or are We the Fosterer?

56:65

لَوْ نَشَآءُ لَجَعَلْنَـٰهُ حُطَـٰمًا فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُونَ ﴿٦٥﴾

Law nashāʾu lajaʿalnāhu ḥuṭāman faẓaltum tafakkahūn

If We willed, We verily could make it chaff, then would ye cease not to exclaim:

56:66

إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ ﴿٦٦﴾

Innā lamughramūn

Lo! we are laden with debt!

56:67

بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُومُونَ ﴿٦٧﴾

Bal naḥnu maḥrūmūn

Nay, but we are deprived!

56:68

أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱلْمَآءَ ٱلَّذِى تَشْرَبُونَ ﴿٦٨﴾

Afaraʾaytumu al-māʾa alladhī tashrabūn

Have ye observed the water which ye drink?

56:69

ءَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْمُنزِلُونَ ﴿٦٩﴾

Aʾantum anzaltumūhu mina al-muzni am naḥnu al-munzilūn

Is it ye who shed it from the raincloud, or are We the Shedder?

56:70

لَوْ نَشَآءُ جَعَلْنَـٰهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ ﴿٧٠﴾

Law nashāʾu jaʿalnāhu ujājan falawlā tashkurūn

If We willed We verily could make it bitter. Why then, give ye not thanks?

56:71

أَفَرَءَيْتُمُ ٱلنَّارَ ٱلَّتِى تُورُونَ ﴿٧١﴾

Afaraʾaytumu an-nāra allatī tūrūn

Have ye observed the fire which ye strike out;

56:72

ءَأَنتُمْ أَنشَأْتُمْ شَجَرَتَهَآ أَمْ نَحْنُ ٱلْمُنشِـُٔونَ ﴿٧٢﴾

Aʾantum anshaʾtum shajaratahā am naḥnu al-munshiʾūn

Was it ye who made the tree thereof to grow, or were We the grower?

56:73

نَحْنُ جَعَلْنَـٰهَا تَذْكِرَةً وَمَتَـٰعًا لِّلْمُقْوِينَ ﴿٧٣﴾

Naḥnu jaʿalnāhā tadhkiratan wamatāʿan lilmuqwīn

We, even We, appointed it a memorial and a comfort for the dwellers in the wilderness.

56:74

فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٧٤﴾

Fasabbiḥ bismi rabbika al-ʿaẓīm

Therefor (O Muhammad), praise the name of thy Lord, the Tremendous.

56:75

۞ فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِمَوَٰقِعِ ٱلنُّجُومِ ﴿٧٥﴾

Falā uqsimu bimawāqiʿi an-nujūm

Nay, I swear by the places of the stars -

56:76

وَإِنَّهُۥ لَقَسَمٌ لَّوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عَظِيمٌ ﴿٧٦﴾

Waʾinnahu laqasamun law taʿlamūna ʿaẓīm

And lo! that verily is a tremendous oath, if ye but knew -

56:77

إِنَّهُۥ لَقُرْءَانٌ كَرِيمٌ ﴿٧٧﴾

Innahu laqurʾānun karīm

That (this) is indeed a noble Qur'an

56:78

فِى كِتَـٰبٍ مَّكْنُونٍ ﴿٧٨﴾

Fī kitābin maknūn

In a Book kept hidden

56:79

لَّا يَمَسُّهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلْمُطَهَّرُونَ ﴿٧٩﴾

Lā yamassuhu illā al-muṭahharūn

Which none toucheth save the purified,

56:80

تَنزِيلٌ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ﴿٨٠﴾

Tanzīlun min rabbi al-ʿālamīn

A revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.

56:81

أَفَبِهَـٰذَا ٱلْحَدِيثِ أَنتُم مُّدْهِنُونَ ﴿٨١﴾

Afabihādhā al-ḥadīthi antum mudhinūn

Is it this Statement that ye scorn,

56:82

وَتَجْعَلُونَ رِزْقَكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ تُكَذِّبُونَ ﴿٨٢﴾

Watajʿalūna rizqakum annakum tukadhdhibūn

And make denial thereof your livelihood?

56:83

فَلَوْلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلْحُلْقُومَ ﴿٨٣﴾

Falawlā idhā balaghati al-ḥulqūm

Why, then, when (the soul) cometh up to the throat (of the dying)

56:84

وَأَنتُمْ حِينَئِذٍ تَنظُرُونَ ﴿٨٤﴾

Waʾantum ḥīnaʾidhin tanẓurūn

And ye are at that moment looking

56:85

وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تُبْصِرُونَ ﴿٨٥﴾

Wanaḥnu aqrabu ilayhi minkum walākin lā tubṣirūn

- And We are nearer unto him than ye are, but ye see not -

56:86

فَلَوْلَآ إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ ﴿٨٦﴾

Falawlā in kuntum ghayra madīnīn

Why then, if ye are not in bondage (unto Us),

56:87

تَرْجِعُونَهَآ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَ ﴿٨٧﴾

Tarjiʿūnahā in kuntum ṣādiqīn

Do ye not force it back, if ye are truthful?

56:88

فَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ ﴿٨٨﴾

Faʾammā in kāna mina al-muqarrabīn

Thus if he is of those brought nigh,

56:89

فَرَوْحٌ وَرَيْحَانٌ وَجَنَّتُ نَعِيمٍ ﴿٨٩﴾

Farawḥun warayḥānun wajannatu naʿīm

Then breath of life, and plenty, and a Garden of delight.

56:90

وَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنْ أَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٩٠﴾

Waʾammā in kāna min aṣḥābi al-yamīn

And if he is of those on the right hand,

56:91

فَسَلَـٰمٌ لَّكَ مِنْ أَصْحَـٰبِ ٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٩١﴾

Fasalāmun laka min aṣḥābi al-yamīn

Then (the greeting) "Peace be unto thee" from those on the right hand.

56:92

وَأَمَّآ إِن كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ ﴿٩٢﴾

Waʾammā in kāna mina al-mukadhdhibīna aḍ-ḍāllīn

But if he is of the rejecters, the erring,

56:93

فَنُزُلٌ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ ﴿٩٣﴾

Fanuzulun min ḥamīm

Then the welcome will be boiling water

56:94

وَتَصْلِيَةُ جَحِيمٍ ﴿٩٤﴾

Wataṣliyatu jaḥīm

And roasting at hell-fire.

56:95

إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَهُوَ حَقُّ ٱلْيَقِينِ ﴿٩٥﴾

Inna hādhā lahuwa ḥaqqu al-yaqīn

Lo! this is certain truth.

56:96

فَسَبِّحْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلْعَظِيمِ ﴿٩٦﴾

Fasabbiḥ bismi rabbika al-ʿaẓīm

Therefor (O Muhammad) praise the name of thy Lord, the Tremendous.