{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/056.htm","path":"isl/056.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/056.htm","text":"THE CHAPTER OF THE INEVITABLE\n(LVI. Mecca.)\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nWhen the inevitable happens; none shall call its\nhappening a lie!- abasing- exalting!\nWhen the earth shall quake, quaking! and the mountains\nshall crumble, crumbling, and become like motes dispersed!\nAnd ye shall be three sorts;\nAnd the fellows of the right hand-what right lucky\nfellows!\nAnd the fellows of the left hand-what unlucky fellows!\nAnd the foremost foremost!\nThese are they who are brought nigh,\nIn gardens of pleasure!\nA crowd of those of yore,\nAnd a few of those of the latter day!\nAnd gold-weft couches, reclining on them face to face.\nAround them shall go eternal youths, with goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; no headache shall they feel therefrom, nor shall their wits be dimmed!\nAnd fruits such as they deem the best;\nAnd flesh of fowl as they desire;\nAnd bright and large-eyed maids like hidden pearls;\nA reward for that which they have done!\nThey shall hear no folly there and no sin;\nOnly the speech, Peace, Peace!\nAnd the fellows of the right-what right lucky fellows!\nAmid thornless lote trees.\nAnd talh trees with piles of fruit;\nAnd outspread shade,\nAnd water out-poured;\nAnd fruit in abundance, neither failing nor forbidden;\nAnd beds upraised!\nVerily, we have produced them a production.\nAnd made them virgins, darlings of equal age\n(with their spouses) for the fellows of the right!\nA crowd of those of yore, and a crowd of those of the\nlatter day!\nAnd the fellows of the left-what unlucky fellows!\nIn hot blasts and boiling water;\nAnd a shade of pitchy smoke,\nNeither cool nor generous!\nVerily, they were affluent ere this, and did persist in\nmighty crime; and used to say, What, when we die and have become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised? or our fathers of yore?\nSay, Verily, those of yore and those of the latter day\nshall surely be gathered together unto the tryst of the well-known day.\nThen ye, O ye who err! who say it is a lie! shall eat of\nthe Zaqqum tree! and fill your bellies with it! and drink thereon of boiling water! and drink as drinks the thirsty camel.\nThis is their entertainment on the judgment day!\nWe created you, then why do ye not credit?\nHave ye considered what ye emit?\nDo we create it, or are we the creators?\nWe have decreed amongst you death; but we are not\nforestalled from making the likes of you in exchange, or producing you as ye know not of.\nYe do know the first production-why then do ye not mind?\nHave ye considered what ye till?\nDo ye make it bear seed, or do we make it bear seed?\nIf we pleased we could make it mere grit, so that ye\nwould pause to marvel:\nVerily,we have got into debt and we are excluded.\nHave ye considered the water which ye drink?\nDo ye make it come down from the clouds, or do we make\nit come down?\nIf we pleased we could make it pungent-why then do ye\nnot give thanks?\nHave ye considered the fire which ye strike?\nDo ye produce the tree that gives it, or do we\nproduce it?\nWe have made it a memorial and a chattel for the\ntraveller of the waste?\nThen celebrate the grand name of thy Lord!\nSo I will not swear by the positions of the stars; and,\nverily, it is a grand oath if ye did but knowthat, verily, this is the honourable Koran- in the laid-up Book!\nLet none touch it but the purified!\nA revelation from the Lord of the worlds.\nWhat! this new discourse will ye despise?\nAnd make for your provision, that you call it a lie?\nWhy then-when it comes up to the throat, and ye at that time look on, though we are nearer to him than you are, but ye cannot see,- why, if ye are not to be judged, do ye not send it back, if ye do tell the truth?\nBut either, if he be of those brought nigh to God,- then rest and fragrance and the garden of pleasure!\nOr, if he be of the fellows of the right! then Peace to thee! from the fellows of the right!\nOr, if he be of those who say it is a lie,-who err! Then an entertainment of boiling water! and broiling in hell!\nVerily, this is surely certain truth!\nSo celebrate the grand name of thy Lord!","title":"056","type":"page"}