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57. IRON (AL-HADID)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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Everything in the heavens and you trustees: those of you who
earth glorifies God—He is the believe and give alms shall be
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Mighty, the Wise One. He has richly rewarded. What could be
sovereign control over the your reason for not believing in
heavens and the earth. He gives God, when the Messenger calls
life and brings death. He has on you to have faith in your Lord
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power over all things. He is the and He has already made a
First and the Last, the Outward covenant with you, if indeed you
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and the Inward. He has knowledge are true believers? It is He who
of all things. 4 It was He who sends down to His Servant clear
created the heavens and earth in six revelations, so that He may lead
Days [periods] and then ascended you out of darkness into light.
the throne. He knows what enters God is indeed compassionate
the earth and what comes out of and merciful to you. 10 Why
it; what descends from the sky should you not spend for the
and what ascends to it. He is cause of God, when God alone
with you wherever you are; He holds the heritage of the heavens
sees all that you do; 5 He has and the earth? Those of you who
sovereignty over the heavens and spent and fought before the
the earth. All affairs will return victory will be higher in rank
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to God. He causes the night to than those who spent and fought
pass into the day and the day to afterwards. a Yet God has
pass into the night. And He knows promised you all a good reward.
all that is in the hearts of men. He is aware of all that you do.
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Have faith in God and His
Messenger and spend in charity a See pages xiv to xvii of the
from that of which He has made Introduction.