Surah Al-Ĥadīd (The Iron) in English

1. يوم ترى المؤمنين والمؤمنات يسعى نورهم بين أيديهم وبأيمانهم بشراكم اليوم جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها ذلك هو الفوز العظيم

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   The day you will see the faithful, men and women, with their light moving swiftly in front of them and on their right, [and they are greeted with the words:] ‘There is good news for you today! Gardens with streams running in them, to remain in them [forever]. That is the great success.’

   yawma tarā l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti yasʿā nūruhum bayna ʾaydīhim wa-bi-ʾaymānihim bushrākumu l-yawma jannātun tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru khālidīna fīhā dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu

2. يوم يقول المنافقون والمنافقات للذين آمنوا انظرونا نقتبس من نوركم قيل ارجعوا وراءكم فالتمسوا نورا فضرب بينهم بسور له باب باطنه فيه الرحمة وظاهره من قبله العذاب

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   The day the hypocrites, men and women, will say to the faithful, ‘Please wait, that we may glean something from your light!’ They will be told: ‘Go back and grope for light!’ Then there will be set up between them a wall with a gate, with mercy within and punishment without.

   yawma yaqūlu l-munāfiqūna wa-l-munāfiqātu li-lladhīna ʾāmanū nẓurūnā naqtabis min nūrikum qīla rjiʿū warāʾakum fa-ltamisū nūran fa-ḍuriba baynahum bi-sūrin lahū bābun bāṭinuhū fīhi r-raḥmatu wa-ẓāhiruhū min qibalihi l-ʿadhābu

3. ينادونهم ألم نكن معكم قالوا بلى ولكنكم فتنتم أنفسكم وتربصتم وارتبتم وغرتكم الأماني حتى جاء أمر الله وغركم بالله الغرور

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   They will call out to them, ‘Did we not use to be with you?’ They will say, ‘Yes! But you cast yourselves into perdition. You awaited and were skeptical, and [false] hopes deceived you until the edict of Allah came, and the Deceiver deceived you concerning Allah.

   yunādūnahum ʾa-lam nakun maʿakum qālū balā wa-lākinnakum fatantum ʾanfusakum wa-tarabbaṣtum wa-rtabtum wa-gharratkumu l-ʾamāniyyu ḥattā jāʾa ʾamru llāhi wa-gharrakum bi-llāhi l-gharūru

4. فاليوم لا يؤخذ منكم فدية ولا من الذين كفروا مأواكم النار هي مولاكم وبئس المصير

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   So today no ransom shall be taken from you or the faithless. The Fire will be your abode: it is your [ultimate] refuge and an evil destination.’

   fa-l-yawma lā yuʾkhadhu minkum fidyatun wa-lā mina lladhīna kafarū maʾwākumu n-nāru hiya mawlākum wa-biʾsa l-maṣīru

5. ألم يأن للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله وما نزل من الحق ولا يكونوا كالذين أوتوا الكتاب من قبل فطال عليهم الأمد فقست قلوبهم وكثير منهم فاسقون

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   Is it not time yet for those who have faith that their hearts should be humbled for Allah’s remembrance and toward the truth which has come down [to them], and to be not like those who were given the Book before? Time took its toll on them and so their hearts were hardened, and many of them are transgressors.

   ʾa-lam yaʾni li-lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾan takhshaʿa qulūbuhum li-dhikri llāhi wa-mā nazala mina l-ḥaqqi wa-lā yakūnū ka-lladhīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablu fa-ṭāla ʿalayhimu l-ʾamadu fa-qasat qulūbuhum wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

6. اعلموا أن الله يحيي الأرض بعد موتها قد بينا لكم الآيات لعلكم تعقلون

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   Know that Allah revives the earth after its death. We have certainly made the signs clear for you, so that you may exercise your reason.

   iʿlamū ʾanna llāha yuḥyi l-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā qad bayyannā lakumu l-ʾāyāti laʿallakum taʿqilūna

7. إن المصدقين والمصدقات وأقرضوا الله قرضا حسنا يضاعف لهم ولهم أجر كريم

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   Indeed the charitable men and women and those who lend Allah a good loan—it shall be multiplied for them, and there will be a noble reward for them.

   ʾinna l-muṣṣaddiqīna wa-l-muṣṣaddiqāti wa-ʾaqraḍū llāha qarḍan ḥasanan yuḍāʿafu lahum wa-lahum ʾajrun karīmun