{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq057.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq057.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. Whatever is in\n The heavens and on earth,\u2014\n Let it declare\n The Praises and Glory of God:\n For He is the Exalted\n In Might, the Wise.\n2. To Him belongs the dominion\n Of the heavens and the earth:\n It is He Who gives\n Life and Death; and He\n Has Power over all things.\n3. He is the First\n And the Last,\n The Evident\n And the Immanent:\n And He has full knowledge\n Of all things.\n4. He it is Who created\n The heavens and the earth\n In six Days, and is moreover\n Firmly established on the Throne\n (Of authority). He knows\n What enters within the earth\nAnd what comes forth out\n Of it, what comes down\n From heaven and what mounts\n Up to it. And He is\n With you wheresoever ye\n May be. And God sees\n Well all that ye do.\n5. To Him belongs the dominion\n Of the heavens and the earth:\n And all affairs are\n Referred back to God.\n6. He merges Night into Day,\n And He merges Day into Night;\n And He has full knowledge\n Of the secrets of (all) hearts.\n7. Believe in God\n And His Apostle,\n And spend (in charity)\n Out of the (substance)\n Whereof He has made you\n Heirs. For, those of you\n Who believe and spend\n (In charity),\u2014for them\n Is a great Reward.\n8. What cause have ye\n Why ye should not believe\n In God?\u2014And the Apostle\n Invites you to believe\nIn your Lord, and has\n Indeed taken your Covenant,\n If ye are men of faith.\n9. He is the One Who\n Sends to His Servant\n Manifest Signs, that He\n May lead you from\n The depths of Darkness\n Into the Light And verily,\n God is to you\n Most kind and Merciful.\n10. And what cause have ye\n Why ye should not spend\n In the cause of God?\u2014\n For to God belongs\n The heritage of the heavens\n And the earth.\n Not equal among you\n Are those who spent (freely)\n And fought, before the Victory,\n (With those who did so later).\n Those are higher in rank\n Than those who spent (freely)\n And fought afterwards.\n But to all has God promised\n A goodly (reward). And God\n Is well acquainted\n With all that ye do.\n11. Who is he that will\n Loan to God a beautiful\n Loan? For (God) will\n Increase it manifold\n To his credit,\n And he will have (besides)\n A liberal reward.\n12. One Day shalt thou see\n The believing men and\n The believing women\u2014\n How their Light runs\n Forward before them\n And by their right hands:\n (Their greeting will be):\n \"Good News for you this Day!\n Gardens beneath which How rivers!\n To dwell therein for aye!\n This is indeed\n The highest Achievement!\n13. One Day will the Hypocrites\n Men and women\u2014say\n To the Believers: \"Wait\n For us! Let us borrow\n (A light) from your Light!\"\n It will be said: \"Turn\n Ye back to your rear!\n Then seek a light (where\n Ye can)!\" So a wall\n Will be put up betwixt them,\nWith a gate therein.\n Within it will be Mercy\n Throughout, and without it,\n All alongside, will be\n (Wrath and) Punishment!\n14. (Those without) will call out,\n \"Were we not with you?\n (The others) will reply, \"True!\n But ye led yourselves\n Into temptation; ye looked forward\n (To our ruin); ye doubted\n (God's Promise); and (your false)\n Desires deceived you; until\n There issued the Command\n Of God. And the Deceiver\n Deceived you in respect of God.\n15. \"This Day shall no ransom\n Be accepted of you, nor\n Of those who rejected God.\n Your abode is the Fire:\n That is the proper place .\n To claim you: and an evil\n Refuge it is!\"\n16. Has not the time arrived\n For the Believers that\n Their hearts in all humility\n Should engage in the remembrance\nOf God and of the Truth\n Which has been revealed (to them),\n And that they should not\n Become like those to whom\n Was given Revelation aforetime,\n But long ages passed over them\n And their hearts grew hard?\n For many among them\n Are rebellious transgressors.\n17. Know ye (all) that\n God giveth life\n To the earth after its death\n Already have We shown\n The Signs plainly to you,\n That ye may learn wisdom.\n18. For those who give\n In Charity, men and women,\n And loan to God\n A Beautiful Loan,\n It shall be increased manifold\n (To their credit),\n And they shall have (besides)\n A liberal reward.\n19. And those who believe\n In God and His apostles\u2014\n They are the Sincere\n (Lovers of Truth), and\nThe Witnesses (who testify),\n In the eyes of their Lord:\n They shall have their Reward\n And their Light,\n But those who reject God\n And deny Our Signs,\u2014\n They are the Companions\n Of Hell-Fire.\n20. Know ye (all), that\n The life of this world\n Is but play and amusement,\n Pomp and mutual boasting\n And multiplying, (in rivalry)\n Among yourselves, riches\n And children.\n Here is a similitude:\n How rain and the growth\n Which it brings forth, delight\n (The hearts of) the tillers;\n Soon it withers; thou\n Wilt see it grow yellow;\n Then it becomes dry\n And crumbles away.\n But in the Hereafter\n Is a Penalty severe\n (For the devotees of wrong).\n And Forgiveness from God\n And (His) Good Pleasure\n(For the devotees of God).\n And what is the life\n Of this world, but\n Goods and chattels\n Of deception?\n21. Be ye foremost (in seeking)\n Forgiveness from your Lord,\n And a Garden (of Bliss),\n The width whereof is\n As the width of\n Heaven and earth,\n Prepared for those who believe\n In God and His apostles:\n That is the Grace of God,\n Which He bestows on whom\n He pleases: and God is\n The Lord of Grace abounding.\n22. No misfortune can happen\n On earth or in your souls\n But is recorded in\n A decree before We bring\n It into existence:\n That is truly easy for God:\n23. In order that ye may\n Not despair over matters\n That pass you by,\n Nor exult over favours\n Bestowed upon you.\n For God loveth not\nAny vainglorious boaster,\u2014\n24. Such persons as are\n Covetous and commend\n Covetousness to men.\n And if any turn back\n (From God's Way), verily\n God is free of all needs,\n Worthy of all praise.\n25. We sent aforetime\n Our apostles with Clear Signs\n And sent down with them\n The Book and the Balance\n (Of Right and Wrong), that men\n May stand forth in justice;\n And We sent down Iron\n In which is (material for)\n Mighty war, as well as\n Many benefits for mankind,\n That God may test who\n It is that will help,\nUnseen, Him and His apostles:\n For God is Full of Strength,\n Exalted in Might\n (And able to enforce His Will).\n26. And We sent Noah\n And Abraham, and established\n In their line Prophethood\n And Revelation: and some of them!\n Were on right guidance,\n But many of them\n Became rebellious transgressors.\n27. Then, in their wake,\n We followed them up\n With (others of) Our apostles:\n We sent after them\n Jesus the son of Mary,\n And bestowed on him\n The Gospel; and We ordained\n In the hearts of those\n Who followed him\n Compassion and Mercy.\nBut the Monasticism\n Which they invented\n For themselves, We did not\n Prescribe for them:\n (We commanded) only\n The seeking for the Good\n Pleasure of God; but that\n They did not foster\n As they should have done.\n Yet We bestowed, on those\n Among them who believed,\n Their (due) reward, but\n Many of them are\n Rebellious transgressors.\n28. O ye that believe!\n Fear God, and believe\n In His Apostle, and He will\n Bestow on you a double\n Portion of His Mercy:\n He will provide for you\nA Light by which ye\n Shall walk (straight\n In your path), and He\n Will forgive you (your past):\n For God is Oft-Forgiving,\n Most Merciful:\n29. That the People of\n The Book may know\n That they have no power\n Whatever over the Grace\n Of God, that (His) Grace\n Is (entirely) in his hand,\n To bestow it on\n Whomsoever He wills.\n For God is the Lord.\n Of Grace abounding.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LVII. \u1e24ad\u012bd, or Iron.","type":"page"}