Al-Hadid الحديد

Madani · 29 ayat · 29 with pondering

• Ayah 1The surah before ended with an order to glorify; this one opens by showing that the whole of creation has already done it.
• Ayah 2Rule of the heavens and earth is His alone, and so are the two things no one else can give: life, and its ending.
• Ayah 3Four names hold all of time and all of existence: before every beginning, after every ending, above everything, and nearer than anything.
• Ayah 4The One who rose over the Throne knows every seed, raindrop and deed, and is with you wherever you are.
• Ayah 5All rule belongs to Him, and every matter, however lost or unresolved it seems, is on its way back to Him.
• Ayah 6He threads night and day into each other a minute at a time, and knows what every chest is hiding.
• Ayah 7Believe, and spend from what you only hold on trust: it came from others, it will pass to others, and the wage is already promised.
• Ayah 8The Messenger is still calling you to your own Lord, and a knot was tied in you long ago; what, honestly, is stopping you?
• Ayah 9He keeps sending clear signs to His servant to bring you out of every darkness into the one light, tenderly and mercifully.
• Ayah 10All you hold is addressed to its final Heir; those who gave when it cost most rank higher, yet all are promised the best.
• Ayah 11Allah asks who will advance Him a beautiful loan, as if it were already done, and promises to repay it multiplied, with His pleasure besides.
• Ayah 12On a dark Day the believers' striving strides ahead of them as light, and the angels greet them with news that shows on every face.
• Ayah 13On that Day light cannot be borrowed from another's fire; a wall rises with one door, mercy within, punishment without.
• Ayah 14They stood in the same rows as the believers, but burned themselves, delayed, doubted and wished, until death came and the wishing ended.
• Ayah 15On that Day no ransom is taken and the Fire becomes the only shelter and companion; today, repentance is still a ransom gladly received.
• Ayah 16A tender reproach to believers: the time has come for your hearts to soften before His word, before long years quietly turn them to stone.
• Ayah 17The One who greens dead ground can revive a hardened heart, a lost person and the dead themselves.
• Ayah 18Men and women who give, lending Allah a beautiful loan, will see it multiplied, and a generous reward waits for them besides.
• Ayah 19Plain faith in Allah and His messengers can raise anyone to the ranks of the truthful and the witnesses, with light kept for them.
• Ayah 20The near life is play, display and the race for more, green for a season then chaff; what lasts is His forgiveness and good pleasure.
• Ayah 21Aim your competitive streak at forgiveness and a Garden as wide as heaven and earth: an overflowing gift, already prepared.
• Ayah 22No blow lands on the earth or on you except it was written before creation began; holding all of it is easy for Allah.
• Ayah 23Knowing that all is written steadies the heart: loss need not crush you, gain need not inflate you, and swagger has no place.
• Ayah 24The boaster clutches his wealth and teaches others to clutch; whoever turns away harms only himself, for Allah needs nothing.
• Ayah 25Messengers, a Book and a balance came so people would uphold visible justice, with iron to restrain and serve.
• Ayah 26Prophecy and scripture ran through the line of Nuh and Ibrahim, yet many still slipped away: faith is never simply inherited.
• Ayah 27Allah placed tenderness and mercy in the hearts of ʿIsa’s followers; the monasticism they invented for Him had to be truly kept.
• Ayah 28Guard yourselves with taqwa and believe in His Messenger: He will give you a double share of mercy, a light to walk by, and forgiveness.
• Ayah 29No people can lock up Allah’s bounty or choose who receives it; it is in His hand alone, and it is immense.