_In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful._ When the FACT becomes fact, None shall deny it is a fact,-- Abasing,--exalting! When the earth shall be shaken in a shock, And the mountains shall be powdered in powder, And become like flying dust, And ye shall be three kinds. Then the people of the right hand--what people of good omen! And the people of the left hand--what people of ill omen! And the outstrippers, still outstripping:-- These are the nearest [to God], In gardens of delight; A crowd of the men of yore, And a few of the latter days; Upon inwrought couches, Reclining thereon face to face. Youths ever young shall go unto them round about With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine,-- Their heads shall not ache with it, neither shall they be confused; And fruits of their choice, And flesh of birds to their desire; And damsels with bright eyes like hidden pearls,-- A reward for what they have wrought. They shall hear no folly therein, nor any sin, But only the greeting, “Peace! peace!” And the people of the right hand--what people of good omen! Amid thornless lote-trees, And bananas laden with fruit, And shade outspread, And water flowing, And fruit abundant, Never failing, nor forbidden, And wives exalted-- Verily we produced them specially And made them virgins, Amorous, of equal age, For the people of the right hand,-- A crowd of the men of yore, And a crowd of the latter days. But the people of the left hand--what people of ill omen!-- Amid burning wind and scalding water, And a shade of black smoke, Not cool or grateful! Verily, before that, they were prosperous; But they persisted in the most grievous sin, And used to say, “When we have died, and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised again, And our fathers the men of yore?” Say: Verily those of yore and of the latter days Shall surely be gathered to the trysting-place of a day which is known. Then ye, O ye who err and call it a lie, Shall surely eat of the tree of Zakkūm, And fill your bellies with it, And drink upon it scalding water,-- Drink like the thirsty camel:-- This shall be their entertainment on the Day of Judgment!