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Sura Lvii. Adid, Or Iron

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

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Sra Lvii.

\"ADD," Or Iron.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1.
Whatever is in

The heavens and on earth,--

Let it declare

The Praises and Glory of God:


For He is the Exalted

In Might, the Wise.

2.
To Him belongs the dominion

Of the heavens and the earth:

It is He Who gives

Life and Death; and He

Has Power over all things.

3.
He is the First

And the Last,

The Evident

And the Immanent:


And He has full knowledge

Of all things.

4.
He it is Who created

The heavens and the earth

In six Days, and is moreover

Firmly established on the Throne

(Of authority). He knows

What enters within the earth

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And what comes forth out

Of it, what comes down

From heaven and what mounts

Up to it. And He is

With you wheresoever ye

May be. And God sees

Well all that ye do.

5.
To Him belongs the dominion

Of the heavens and the earth:

And all affairs are

Referred back to God.

6.
He merges Night into Day,

And He merges Day into Night;

And He has full knowledge

Of the secrets of (all) hearts.

7.
Believe in God

And His Apostle,

And spend (in charity)

Out of the (substance)

Wher He has made you

Heirs. For, those of you

Who believe and spend

(In charity),--for them

Is a great Reward.

8.
What cause have ye

Why ye should not believe

In God?--And the Apostle

Invites you to believe

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In your Lord, and has

Indeed taken your Covenant,

If ye are men of faith.

9.
He is the One Who

Sends to His Servant

Manifest Signs, that He

May lead you from

The depths of Darkness

Into the Light And verily,

God is to you

Most kind and Merciful.

10.
And what cause have ye

Why ye should not spend

In the cause of God?--

For to God belongs

The heritage of the heavens

And the earth.

Not equal among you

Are those who spent (freely)

And fought, before the Victory,

(With those who did so later).

Those are higher in rank

Than those who spent (freely)

And fought afterwards.

But to all has God promised

A goodly (reward). And God

Is well acquainted

With all that ye do.

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Section 2.

11.
Who is he that will

Loan to God a beautiful

Loan? For (God) will

Increase it manifold

To his credit,

And he will have (besides)

A liberal reward.

12.
One Day shalt thou see

The believing men and

The believing women--

How their Light runs

Forward before them

And by their right hands:


(Their greeting will be):

"Good News for you this Day!

Gardens beneath which How rivers!

To dwell therein for aye!

This is indeed

The highest Achievement!

13.
One Day will the Hypocrites

Men and women--say

To the Believers: "Wait

For us! Let us borrow

(A light) from your Light!"

It will be said: "Turn

Ye back to your rear!

Then seek a light (where

Ye can)!
" So a wall

Will be put up betwixt them,

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With a gate therein.

Within it will be Mercy

Throughout, and without it,

All alongside, will be

(Wrath and) Punishment!

14.
(Those without) will call out,

"Were we not with you?

(The others) will reply, "True!

But ye led yourselves

Into temptation; ye looked forward

(To our ruin); ye doubted

(God's Promise); and (your false)

Desires deceived you; until

There issued the Command

Of God. And the Deceiver

Deceived you in respect of God.

15.
\"This Day shall no ransom

Be accepted of you, nor

Of those who rejected God.

Your abode is the Fire:


That is the proper place.

To claim you: and an evil

Refuge it is!"

16.
Has not the time arrived

For the Believers that

Their hearts in all humility

Should engage in the remembrance

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Of God and of the Truth

Which has been revealed (to them),

And that they should not

Become like those to whom

Was given Revelation aforetime,

But long ages passed over them

And their hearts grew hard?

For many among them

Are rebellious transgressors.

17.
Know ye (all) that

God giveth life

To the earth after its death

Already have We shown

The Signs plainly to you,

That ye may learn wisdom.

18.
For those who give

In Charity, men and women,

And loan to God

A Beautiful Loan,

It shall be increased manifold

(To their credit),

And they shall have (besides)

A liberal reward.

19.
And those who believe

In God and His apostles--

They are the Sincere

(Lovers of Truth), and

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The Witnesses (who testify),

In the eyes of their Lord:

They shall have their Reward

And their Light,

But those who reject God

And deny Our Signs,--

They are the Companions

Of Hell-Fire.

Section 3.

20.
Know ye (all), that

The life of this world

Is but play and amusement,

Pomp and mutual boasting

And multiplying, (in rivalry)

Among yourselves, riches

And children.

Here is a similitude:


How rain and the growth

Which it brings forth, delight

(The hearts of) the tillers;

Soon it withers; thou

Wilt see it grow yellow;

Then it becomes dry

And crumbles away.

But in the Hereafter

Is a Penalty severe

(For the devotees of wrong).

And Forgiveness from God

And (His) Good Pleasure

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(For the devotees of God).

And what is the life

Of this world, but

Goods and chattels

Of deception?

21.
Be ye foremost (in seeking)

Forgiveness from your Lord,

And a Garden (of Bliss),

The width wher is

As the width of

Heaven and earth,

Prepared for those who believe

In God and His apostles:

That is the Grace of God,

Which He bestows on whom

He pleases: and God is

The Lord of Grace abounding.

22.
No misfortune can happen

On earth or in your souls

But is recorded in

A decree before We bring

It into existence:


That is truly easy for God:

23.
In order that ye may

Not despair over matters

That pass you by,

Nor exult over favours

Bestowed upon you.

For God loveth not

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Any vainglorious boaster,--

24.
Such persons as are

Covetous and commend

Covetousness to men.

And if any turn back

(From God's Way), verily

God is free of all needs,

Worthy of all praise.

25.
We sent aforetime

Our apostles with Clear Signs

And sent down with them

The Book and the Balance

(Of Right and Wrong), that men

May stand forth in justice;

And We sent down Iron

In which is (material for)

Mighty war, as well as

Many benefits for mankind,

That God may test who

It is that will help,

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Unseen, Him and His apostles:

For God is Full of Strength,

Exalted in Might

(And able to enforce His Will).

Section 4.

26.
And We sent Noah

And Abraham, and established

In their line Prophethood

And Revelation: and some of them!

Were on right guidance,

But many of them

Became rebellious transgressors.

27.
Then, in their wake,

We followed them up

With (others of) Our apostles:


We sent after them

Jesus the son of Mary,

And bestowed on him

The Gospel; and We ordained

In the hearts of those

Who followed him

Compassion and Mercy.

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But the Monasticism

Which they invented

For themselves, We did not

Prescribe for them:


(We commanded) only

The seeking for the Good

Pleasure of God; but that

They did not foster

As they should have done.

Yet We bestowed, on those

Among them who believed,

Their (due) reward, but

Many of them are

Rebellious transgressors.

28. O
ye that believe!

Fear God, and believe

In His Apostle, and He will

Bestow on you a double

Portion of His Mercy:


He will provide for you

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A
Light by which ye

Shall walk (straight

In your path
), and He

Will forgive you (your past):


For God is Oft-Forgiving,

Most Merciful:

29.
That the People of

The Book may know

That they have no power

Whatever over the Grace

Of God, that (His) Grace

Is (entirely) in his hand,

To bestow it on

Whomsoever He wills.

For God is the Lord.

Of Grace abounding.

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