Surah Al-Ĥadīd (The Iron) in English

1. لقد أرسلنا رسلنا بالبينات وأنزلنا معهم الكتاب والميزان ليقوم الناس بالقسط وأنزلنا الحديد فيه بأس شديد ومنافع للناس وليعلم الله من ينصره ورسله بالغيب إن الله قوي عزيز

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   Certainly We sent Our apostles with manifest proofs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance, so that mankind may maintain justice; and We sent down iron, in which there is great might and uses for mankind, and so that Allah may know those who help Him and His apostles [with faith] in the Unseen. Indeed Allah is all-strong, all-mighty.

   la-qad ʾarsalnā rusulanā bi-l-bayyināti wa-ʾanzalnā maʿahumu l-kitāba wa-l-mīzāna li-yaqūma n-nāsu bi-l-qisṭi wa-ʾanzalnā l-ḥadīda fīhi baʾsun shadīdun wa-manāfiʿu li-n-nāsi wa-li-yaʿlama llāhu man yanṣuruhū wa-rusulahū bi-l-ghaybi ʾinna llāha qawiyyun ʿazīzun

2. ولقد أرسلنا نوحا وإبراهيم وجعلنا في ذريتهما النبوة والكتاب فمنهم مهتد وكثير منهم فاسقون

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   Certainly We sent Noah and Abraham and We ordained among their descendants prophethood and the Book. Some of them are [rightly] guided, and many of them are transgressors.

   wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā nūḥan wa-ʾibrāhīma wa-jaʿalnā fī dhurriyyatihimā n-nubuwwata wa-l-kitāba fa-minhum muhtadin wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

3. ثم قفينا على آثارهم برسلنا وقفينا بعيسى ابن مريم وآتيناه الإنجيل وجعلنا في قلوب الذين اتبعوه رأفة ورحمة ورهبانية ابتدعوها ما كتبناها عليهم إلا ابتغاء رضوان الله فما رعوها حق رعايتها فآتينا الذين آمنوا منهم أجرهم وكثير منهم فاسقون

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   Then We followed them up with Our apostles and We followed [them] with Jesus son of Mary, and We gave him the Evangel, and We put kindness and mercy into the hearts of those who followed him. But as for monasticism, they innovated it—We had not prescribed it for them—only seeking Allah’s pleasure. Yet they did not observe it with due observance. So We gave to the faithful among them their [due] reward, but many of them are transgressors.

   thumma qaffaynā ʿalā ʾāthārihim bi-rusulinā wa-qaffaynā bi-ʿīsā bni maryama wa-ʾātaynāhu l-ʾinjīla wa-jaʿalnā fī qulūbi lladhīna ttabaʿūhu raʾfatan wa-raḥmatan wa-rahbāniyyatan-i btadaʿūhā mā katabnāhā ʿalayhim ʾillā btighāʾa riḍwāni llāhi fa-mā raʿawhā ḥaqqa riʿāyatihā fa-ʾātaynā lladhīna ʾāmanū minhum ʾajrahum wa-kathīrun minhum fāsiqūna

4. يا أيها الذين آمنوا اتقوا الله وآمنوا برسوله يؤتكم كفلين من رحمته ويجعل لكم نورا تمشون به ويغفر لكم والله غفور رحيم

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   O you who have faith! Be wary of Allah and have faith in His Apostle. He will grant you a double share of His mercy and a light to walk by, and He will forgive you, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful;

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ttaqū llāha wa-ʾāminū bi-rasūlihī yuʾtikum kiflayni min raḥmatihī wa-yajʿal lakum nūran tamshūna bihī wa-yaghfir lakum wa-llāhu ghafūrun raḥīmun

5. لئلا يعلم أهل الكتاب ألا يقدرون على شيء من فضل الله وأن الفضل بيد الله يؤتيه من يشاء والله ذو الفضل العظيم

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   so that the People of the Book may know that they do not control Allah grace in any wise and that in Allah’s hand is all grace, which He grants to whomever He wishes and Allah is dispenser of a mighty grace.

   li-ʾallā yaʿlama ʾahlu l-kitābi ʾallā yaqdirūna ʿalā shayʾin min faḍli llāhi wa-ʾanna l-faḍla bi-yadi llāhi yuʾtīhi man yashāʾu wa-llāhu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi