Surah Al-Hadid English Translation & Transliteration

¹Everything in the heavens and on the earth submits to the law of creation Allah has laid down. For it is He who possesses supreme power and whose every judgment is right.

²For absolute sovereignty over the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. It is He who gives life and causes death. For He has power over all things/sets a measure for all things.

³He is the First/the beginningless First, and the Last/the endless Last; He is the Manifest/the visible cause of all existence, and the Hidden/its unseen reality. Therefore He knows all things.

⁴It is He who created the heavens and the earth in six stages and then, laying down the law of all things, established His sovereignty over them. He knows all that enters the earth and all that comes out of it, all that descends from the sky and all that rises up to it. Wherever you are, He is with you. Allah sees everything you do.

⁵Absolute sovereignty over the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. In the end all matters return to Allah.

⁶He shortens the night and adds it to the day, and shortens the day and adds it to the night. He knows all the secrets hidden in hearts.

⁷Believe and trust wholeheartedly in Allah and His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, and spend in His way from the wealth that Allah has given you in trust and over which He has made you stewards. For those of you who believe and spend of their wealth in Allah's way there is a great reward.

⁸And what is the matter with you, that you do not believe and trust in Allah, when the Messenger keeps calling you to believe and trust in your Lord? Yet your Lord had already taken a covenant/firm pledge from you; so keep your word and be believers.

⁹It is He who sends down clear verses to His servant to bring you out of darkness into light. Surely Allah is most compassionate and most merciful toward you.

¹⁰Why do you not spend of your wealth in Allah's way, when the true inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah? Those of you who spent and fought before the conquest of Mecca are not equal to the others. They have higher ranks than those who spent and fought after the conquest. Yet Allah has promised Paradise to all of them. Know that Allah is aware of all that you do.

¹¹Whoever lends Allah a goodly loan by spending in Allah's way, Allah will repay him many times over what he gave. And for such people there is a great reward.

¹²On that day you will see the believing men and believing women hastening forward, lit by the light they have earned, before them and on their right. —Good news for you! Now enter the gardens beneath which rivers flow, where you will remain; this is the magnificent triumph! they will be told.

¹³On that day the two-faced hypocrite men and hypocrite women, who pretend to believe when they do not, will say to those who believe: "Wait a little, so that we may benefit from your light." They will be told: "Go back behind you and seek your light there!" And at that moment a wall with a gate will be set up between them. On the side of this wall facing the believers there is mercy, and on its outer face, facing the hypocrites/the two-faced, there is punishment.

¹⁴The two-faced hypocrites will call out to the believers: —Were we not with you? The believers will say: —Yes, outwardly you were, but you ruined yourselves through your two-facedness. You kept waiting for some calamity to befall us. You were always in deep doubt about Allah's verses. Vain hopes kept you occupied until Allah's command, death, came, and so those deceivers kept deceiving you about Allah.

¹⁵So today no ransom for salvation will be accepted either from you or from those who openly declared their disbelief. From now on your place is the Fire, which is what you deserve. What an evil final destination Hell is!

¹⁶Has the time not yet come for those who believe to remember Allah with reverence, and for their hearts to soften, trembling before the Quranic verses that come from Him? Let them not be like those who were given the Book before and whose hearts hardened over the long time they spent turning away from revelation. That is why most of them were transgressors who had strayed from the path.

¹⁷Know well that Allah revives the earth after its death. This is how We explain Our signs of power to you, so that you may use your reason.

¹⁸Men and women who give of their wealth freely in Allah's way, expecting nothing in return, and those who lend Allah a goodly loan, will have their reward multiplied many times over. A magnificent reward awaits them.

¹⁹As for those who believe wholeheartedly in Allah and His messengers, who convey Allah's messages, it is they who are, in Allah's sight, the true in heart and word, and the witnesses. They have both their reward and their illuminating light. But the disbelievers who cover up the truths and do not believe, it is they who are the very people of Hell.

²⁰Know that the life of this world is nothing but play, amusement, adornment and display, boasting to one another, and the desire and greed to have more wealth, property, and children. This worldly life is like rain whose plants delight the farmers. Then, before you know it, they have turned yellow and withered, and become dry grass and straw. In the Hereafter there is either severe punishment, or forgiveness and good pleasure from Allah. Yes, the life of this world is nothing but a deceptive and passing pleasure.

²¹So, whatever you do, race to attain your Lord's forgiveness and to enter gardens as wide as the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who believe wholeheartedly in Allah and His messengers, who convey Allah's messages! That is Allah's grace, which He will give to those who deserve it. For Allah possesses great grace and generosity.

²²No calamity befalls on the earth or in your own selves without Our having bound it to a law before We bring it into being. There is no doubt that this is very easy for Allah.

²³This law is so that you do not grieve over what you have lost, nor exult over the blessings He has given you. For Allah does not love any conceited braggart.

²⁴For they themselves are stingy and urge others to be stingy too. Whoever refrains from spending in Allah's way, let him know that Allah needs no one and is worthy of all praise.

²⁵Indeed, We sent Our messengers with clear proofs of the truth. We sent down books with them, and through that Book We laid down standards of value that would establish justice and the rule of law among people; and We also sent down iron, a very strong substance useful to people, so that Allah might bring to light those who sincerely help His cause and the cause of His messengers, who convey Allah's messages. There is no doubt that Allah is all-strong, supreme, and exalted.

²⁶Within this framework We also sent Noah and Abraham as messengers, and gave prophethood and the Book to many of the descendants of both. Some of their peoples found the right path, but most strayed from the path and became transgressors.

²⁷Then We sent Our messengers one after another in their footsteps. After them We sent Jesus son of Mary and gave him the Gospel, and We placed compassion and mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. But monasticism they invented themselves to win Allah's good pleasure, though We had not commanded it; and they did not fulfill even its requirements. We gave those of them who believed their reward, but most of them strayed from the path and became transgressors.

²⁸O you who believe! Guard yourselves against defying Allah, and believe and trust in His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages, so that He may give you a double reward from the treasury of His mercy. He will also grant you a light in whose brightness you will walk, and so forgive you. For Allah is matchless in forgiveness and possesses infinite mercy.

²⁹So let the followers of the earlier revelation understand that they cannot prevent any of Allah's grace, and that grace and generosity are entirely in Allah's hand, and that He will give them to those who deserve them. For Allah possesses great grace and generosity.