# Sura  57 - Iron

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> SURA LVII (57) - Iron       (Medina - 29 verses)                 (XCIX - 407)  
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        All that is in the Heavens and in the Earth praiseth God, and He is the
> Mighty, the Wise!
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>        His the Kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth; He maketh alive and
> killeth; and He hath power over all things!
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>        He is the first and the last; the Seen and the Hidden; and He knoweth
> all things!
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>        It is He who in six days created the Heavens and the Earth, then
> ascended His throne.  He knoweth that which entereth the earth, and that which
> goeth forth from it, and what cometh down from Heaven, and what mounteth up to
> it; and wherever ye are, He is with you; and God beholdeth all your actions!
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>        His is the kingdom of the Heavens and the Earth; and to God shall all
> things return!
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>        He causeth the night to pass into the day, and He causeth the day to
> pass into the night: and He knoweth the very secrets of the bosom!
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>        Believe in God and his apostle, and bestow in alms of that whereof God
> hath made you heirs: for whoever among you believe and give alms - their's
> shall be a great recompense.
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>        What hath come to you that ye believe not in God, although the apostle
> exhorteth you to believe in your Lord, and He hath accepted your alliance - if
> ye are true believers?
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>        He it is who hath sent down clear tokens upon His servant, that He may
> bring you out of darkness into light; and truly, Kind, Merciful to you is God.
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> 57:10  And what hath come to you that ye expend not for the cause of God? since
> the heritage of the Heavens and of the Earth is God's only!  Those among you
> who contributed before the victory, and fought, shall be differently treated
> from certain others among you!  Such shall have a nobler grade than those who
> contributed and fought after it.  But a goodly recompense hath God promised to
> all; and God is fully informed of your actions.
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>        Who is he that will lend a generous loan to God?  So will He double it
> to him, and he shall have a noble reward.
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>        One day thou shalt see the believers, men and women, with their light
> running before them, and on their right hand.  The angels shall say to them,
> "Good tidings for you this day of gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow,
> in which ye shall abide for ever!"  This the great bliss!
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>        On that day the hypocrites, both men and women, shall say to those who
> believe, "Tarry for us, that we may kindle our light at yours."  It shall be
> said, "Return ye back, and seek light for yourselves."  But between them shall
> be set a wall with a gateway, within which shall be the Mercy, and in front,
> without it, the Torment.  They shall cry to them, "Were we not with you?"  They
> shall say, "Yes! but ye led yourselves into temptation, and ye delayed, and ye
> doubted, and the good things ye craved deceived you, till the doom of God
> arrived: - and the deceiver deceived you in regard to God."
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>        On that day, therefore, no ransom shall be taken from you or from those
> who believe not: - your abode the fire! - This shall be your master! and
> wretched the journey thither!
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>        Hath not the time come, for those who believe, to humble their hearts at
> the warning of God and at the truth which he hath sent down? and that they
> be not as those to whom the Scriptures were given heretofore, whose lifetime
> was prolonged, but whose hearts were hardened, and many of them were perverse?
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>        Know that God quickeneth the earth after its death!  Now have we made
> these signs clear to you, that ye may understand.
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>        Verily, they who give alms, both men and women, and they who lend a
> generous loan to God, - doubled shall it be to them - and they shall have a
> noble recompense.
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>        And they who believed in God and his apostle are the men of truth, and
> the witnesses in the presence of their Lord.  They shall have their recompense
> and their light:  But as for the infidels, and those who give the lie to our
> signs, these shall be the inmates of Hell.
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>        Know ye that this world's life is only a sport, and pastime, and show,
> and a cause of vainglory among among you!  And the multiplying of riches and
> children is like the plants which spring up after rain - Their growth rejoiceth
> the husbandman; then they wither away, and thou seest them all yellow; then
> they become stubble.  And in the next life is a severe chastisement,
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> 57:20  Or else pardon from God and His satisfaction: and this world's life is
> but a cheating fruition.
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>        Vie in hasting after pardon from your Lord, and Paradise - whose
> outspread is as the outspread of the Heaven and of the Earth:  Prepared is it
> for those who believe in God and His apostles:  Such is the bounty of God: to
> whom He will He giveth it: and of immense bounty is God!
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>        No mischance chanceth either on earth or in your own persons, but ere we
> created them, it was in the Book; - for easy is this to God -
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>        Lest ye distress yourselves if good things escape you, and be over
> joyous for what falleth to your share.  God loveth not the presumptuous, the
> boaster,
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>        Who are covetous themselves and incite others to covetousness.  But
> whoso turneth away from almsgiving - Ah! God is the Rich, the Praiseworthy.
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>        We have sent our apostles with the clear tokens, and we have caused the
> Book and the balance to descend with them, that men might observe fairness.
> And we have sent down iron.  Dire evil resideth in it, as well as advantage,
> to mankind!  God would know who will assist Him and his apostle in secret.
> Verily, God is Powerful, Strong.
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>        And of old sent we Noah and Abraham, and on their seed conferred the
> gift of prophecy, and the Book; and some of them we guided aright; but many
> were evil doers.
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>        Then we caused our apostles to follow in their footsteps; and we caused
> Jesus the son of Mary to follow them; and we gave him the Evangel, and we put
> into the hearts of those who followed him kindness and compassion: but as to
> the monastic life, they invented it themselves.  The desire only of pleasing
> God did we prescribe to them, and this they observed not as it ought to have
> been observed: but to such of them as believed gave we their reward, though
> many of them were perverse.
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>        O ye who believe! fear God and believe in his apostle: two portions of
> his mercy will He give you.  He will bestow on you light to walk in, and He
> will forgive you: for God is Forgiving, Merciful;
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>        That the people of the Book may know that they have no control over
> aught of the favours of God, and that these gifts of grace are in the hands of
> God, and that He vouchsafeth them to whom he will; for God is of immense
> bounty.
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> — *Sura  57 - Iron*