57. "The Iron"
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Whatever is in the heavens and the earth declares the glory of
Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; He gives life
and causes death; and He has power over all things.
He is the First and the Last and the Ascendant (over all) and the
Knower of hidden things, and He is Cognizant of all things.
He it is who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, and
He is firm in power; He knows that which goes deep down into the earth
and that which comes forth out of it, and that which comes down from the
heaven and that which goes up into it, and He is with you wherever you are;
and Allah sees what you do.
His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and to Allah are
(all) affairs returned.
He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and causes the day
to enter in upon the night, and He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts.
Believe in Allah and His Apostle, and spend out of what He has
made you to be successors of; for those of you who believe and spend shall
have a great reward.
And what reason have you that you should not believe in Allah?
And the Apostle calls on you that you may believe in your Lord, and indeed
He has made a covenant with you if you are believers.
He it is who sends down clear communications upon His servant,
that he may bring you forth from utter darkness into light; and most surely
Allah is Kind, Merciful to you.
And what reason have you that you should not spend in Allah's
way? And Allah's is the inheritance of the heavens and the earth, not alike
among you are those who spent before the victory and fought (and those
who did not): they are more exalted in rank than those who spent and fought
afterwards; and Allah has promised good to all; and Allah is Aware of what
you do.
Who is there that will offer to Allah a good gift so He will
double it for him, and he shall have an excellent reward.
On that day you will see the faithful men and the faithful
women— their light running before them and on their right hand— good news
for you today: gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein, that is
the grand achievement.
On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical
women will say to those who believe: Wait for us, that we may have light
from your light; it shall be said: Turn back and seek a light. Then separation
would be brought about between them, with a wall having a door in it; (as
for) the inside of it, there shall be mercy in it, and (as for) the outside of it,
before it there shall be punishment.
They will cry out to them: Were we not with you? They shall
say: Yea! but you caused yourselves to fall into temptation, and you waited
and doubted, and vain desires deceived you till the threatened punishment
of Allah came, while the arch-deceiver deceived you about Allah.
So today ransom shall not be accepted from you nor from those
who disbelieved; your abode is the fire; it is your friend and evil is the resort.
Has not the time yet come for those who believe that their
hearts should be humble for the remembrance of Allah and what has come
down of the truth? And ~that) they should not be like those who were given
the Book before, but the time became prolonged to them, so their hearts
hardened, and most of them are transgressors.
Know that Allah gives life to the earth after its death; indeed,
We have made the communications clear to you that you may understand.
Surely (as for) the charitable men and the charitable women and
(those who) set apart for Allah a goodly portion, it shall be doubled for them
and they shall have a noble reward.
And (as for) those who believe in Allah and His apostles, these
it is that are the truthful and the faithful ones in the sight of their Lord: they
shall have their reward and their light, and (as for) those who disbelieve and
reject Our communications, these are the inmates of the hell.
Know that this world's life is only sport and play and gaiety and
boasting among yourselves, and a vying in the multiplication of wealth and
children, like the rain, whose causing the vegetation to grow, pleases the
husbandmen, then it withers away so that you will see it become yellow,
then it becomes dried up and broken down; and in the hereafter is a severe
chastisement and (also) forgiveness from Allah and (His) pleasure; and this
world's life is naught but means of deception.
Hasten to forgiveness
from your Lord and to a garden the extensiveness of which is as the
extensiveness of the heaven and the earth; it is prepared for those who
believe in Allah and His apostles; that is the grace of Allah: He gives it to
whom He pleases, and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
No evil befalls on the earth nor in your own souls, but it is in a
book before We bring it into existence; surely that is easy to Allah:
So that you may not grieve for what has escaped you, nor be
exultant at what He has given you; and Allah does not love any arrogant
boaster:
Those who are niggardly and enjoin niggardliness on men; and
whoever turns back, then surely Allah is He Who is the Self sufficient, the
Praised.
Certainly We sent Our apostles with clear arguments, and sent
down with them the Book and the balance that men may conduct themselves
with equity; and We have made the iron, wherein is great violence and
advantages to men, and that Allah may know who helps Him and His
apostles in the secret; surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.
And certainly We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and We gave to their
offspring the (gift of) prophecy and the Book; so there are among them
those who go aright, and most of them are transgressors.
Then We made Our apostles to follow in their footsteps, and
We sent Isa son of Marium afterwards, and We gave him the Injeel, and We
put in the hearts of those who followed him kindness and mercy; and (as for)
monkery, they innovated it— We did not prescribe it to them— only to seek
Allah's pleasure, but they did not observe it with its due observance; so We
gave to those of them who believed their reward, and most of them are
transgressors.
O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and
believe in His Apostle: He will give you two portions of His mercy, and
make for you a light with which you will walk, and forgive you, and Allah is
Forgiving, Merciful;
So that the followers of the Book may know that they do not
control aught of the grace of Allah, and that grace is in Allah's hand, He
gives it to whom He pleases; and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.
