CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHATEVER IS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH DECLARES GOD'S GLORY 
FOR HE IS ALL WISE AND ALL MIGHTY

2  TO HIM BELONGS THE DOMINION 
OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS 

HE CAUSES DEATH AND IS LIFE GIVING 
AND HE HAS POWER OVER ALL THINGS 

3  HE IS THE FIRST AND THE LAST, THE EVIDENT 
AND THE IMMANENT 

AND HE IS ALL KNOWING
OF ALL THINGS

4  HE IT IS WHO IN SIX DAYS CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH 
AND IS MOREOVER ESTABLISHED ON THE THRONE OF POWER 

HE KNOWS WHAT ENTERS THE EARTH AND WHAT COMES OUT OF IT 
WHAT COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND WHAT MOUNTS UP TO IT 

WHEREVER YOU MAY BE HE IS WITH YOU
AND GOD SEES WELL ALL THAT YOU DO

5  THE DOMINION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH BELONG TO GOD
AND ALL AFFAIRS ARE REFERRED BACK TO GOD

6  HE MERGES NIGHT
INTO DAY AND DAY INTO NIGHT

AND HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE
OF ALL OF THE HEART'S SECRETS

7  BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER AND SPEND IN CHARITY
OUT OF THE SUBSTANCE HE HAS GIVEN YOU INHERENTLY
FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND SPEND IN CHARITY
FOR THEM IS A GREAT REWARD INDEED

8  AND WHAT CAUSE HAVE YOU WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD AND WHEN THE APOSTLE INVITES YOU TO BELIEVE 
AND HE HAS TAKEN YOUR COVENANT IF YOU BELIEVE?

9  HE SENDS TO HIS SERVANT MANIFEST MESSAGES 
TO LEAD YOU INTO LIGHT OUT FROM DARKNESS 
AND GOD IS FULL OF MERCY AND KINDNESS

10  AND WHY SHOULD YOU NOT SPEND IN GOD'S CAUSE FREELY
WHEN TO GOD BELONGS EVERYTHING EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY?
AND NOT EQUAL ARE THOSE WHO DID SPEND FREELY  
AND FOUGHT BEFORE THE VICTORY 
WITH THOSE WHO DID SO BELATEDY 
THOSE ARE IN RANK A HIGHER DEGREE
THAN THOSE WHO FOUGHT AFTER AND SPENT FREELY
BUT TO ALL HAS GOD PROMISED A REWARD THAT IS GOODLY 
AND ALL THAT YOU DO GOD SEES CLEARLY

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

11  WHO IS HE THAT WILL LOAN 
TO GOD A BEAUTIFUL LOAN?  

FOR GOD WILL INCREASE IT MANIFOLD TO HIS CREDIT 
AND HE WILL BE LIBERALLY REWARDED FOR IT

12  ON THAT DAY YOU WILL SEE THE BELIEVING
MEN AND WOMEN, BEFORE THEM THEIR LIGHT BURNING
AND BY THEIR HANDS GLAD TIDINGS
FOR YOU THIS DAY ARE GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING
AS THEIR PERMANENT DWELLING 
AND THAT WILL BE THE ULTIMATE BLESSING

13  THE HYPOCRITES, MEN AND WOMEN WILL SAY 
TO THE BELIEVERS ON THAT DAY

WAIT FOR US THAT WE MIGHT
BORROW A LIGHT FROM YOUR LIGHT 
IT WILL BE SAID, TURN BACK IN FLIGHT
THEN FROM WHERE YOU CAN SEEK A LIGHT 

A WALL WILL BE PUT UP BETWEEN THEM WITH A GATE WITHIN IT 
THERE WILL BE MERCY INSIDE IT AND WRATH OUTSIDE OF IT 

14  THOSE WITHOUT WILL CALL OUT, WERE WE NOT WITH YOU? 
THE OTHERS WILL REPLY, WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE 
BUT YOU LET YOUR TEMPTATIONS MISLEAD YOU 
AND YOU LOOKED FORWARD TO OUR RUIN TOO
AND YOU DOUBTED GOD'S PROMISE TO YOU
AND YOUR FALSE DESIRES DECEIVED YOU 
UNTIL GOD'S COMMAND WAS ISSUED TO YOU 
AND THE ARCH DECEIVER DECEIVED YOU 

15  THIS DAY OF YOU WILL NO RANSOM BE CONSIDERED 
NOR OF THOSE AMONG YOU WHO WERE REJECTERS 
YOUR ABODE TODAY WILL BE THE FIRE
AND THAT PLACE FOR YOU IS PROPER
AND AN EVIL REFUGE IT IS FOR SURE

16  HAS NOT THE TIME ARRIVED FOR THE BELIEVERS 
THAT THEIR HEARTS IN ALL HUMILITY SHOULD REMEMBER
GOD AND THE TRUTH WHICH HAS BEEN DELIVERED?
THEY SHOULD NOT BECOME LIKE THOSE TO WHOM SCRIPTURES
WERE REVEALED TO THEM IN DAYS PRIOR
BUT LONG AGES PASSED THEM OVER  
AND THEIR HEARTS GREW HARDER
FOR MANY AMONG THEM ARE TRANSGRESSORS 
AND REBELLIOUS DISOBEDIENT SINNERS

17  YOUR LORD GIVES LIFE TO THE EARTH AFTER IT DIES  
AND ALREADY HAVE WE SHOWN YOU THE SIGNS  
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BECOME WISE

18  THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO GIVE IN CHARITY 
AND LOAN TO THEIR LORD A LOAN OF BEAUTY 
IT WILL BE INCREASED FOR THEM GREATLY
AND THEY WILL BE REWARDED LIBERALLY

19  AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
THEY ARE LOVERS OF TRUTH AND ARE SINCERE

AND THE WITNESSES WHO IN THE EYES OF THEIR LORD 
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR LIGHT AND THEIR REWARD 

BUT THOSE WHO DENY OUR SIGNS AND ARE DISBELIEVERS
THEY ARE THE COMPANIONS OF HELL FIRE

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                         SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

20  KNOW THAT THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD IS BUT SPORTING
AND PLAYING AND AMUSEMENT AND  POMP AND BOASTING 

AND AMONG YOURSELVES MULTIPLYING IN RIVALRY  
RICHES AND CHILDREN AND HERE IS A ALLEGORY

HOW RAIN AND THE GROWTH WHICH IT BEARS
DELIGHTS THE HEARTS OF THE TILLERS
IT GROWS YELLOW AND WITHERS 
THEN IT DRIES AND CRUMBLES THEREAFTER  
THERE IS A SEVERE PENALTY IN THE HEREAFTER 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE WRONG DOERS
AND FORGIVENESS FROM GOD AND HIS GOOD PLEASURE 
FOR ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS DOERS

AND WHAT IS THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD REALLY?
NOTHING BUT GOODS AND CHATTELS OF VANITY

21  SEEK FORGIVENESS FROM YOUR CREATOR
AND A GARDEN WHEREIN FLOW PLEASANT RIVERS 
THE WIDTH OF IT IS THE WIDTH OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD AND HIS MESSENGERS
WHICH GOD BESTOWS ON THOSE OF HIS PLEASURE
AND GOD IS THE LORD OF GRACE AND HONOR

22  NO MISFORTUNE ON EARTH OR IN YOUR PERSONS CAN HAPPEN
BUT IS RECORDED IN A DECREE WE BEFORE CAUSE  IT TO HAPPEN 
AND THAT FOR GOD IS EASY FOR CERTAIN

23  IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY NOT DESPAIR OVER MATTERS 
THAT PASS YOU BY NOR EXULT OVER FAVORS 
BESTOWED UPON YOU, FOR GOD LOVES NOT ANY BOASTERS

24  SUCH PERSONS THAT ARE MISERLY 
AND COMMEND MEN TO BE MISERLY 
AND TURN BACK FROM GOD, GOD IS SURELY 
FREE OF ALL NEEDS AND IS PRAISEWORTHY

25  WITH CLEAR MESSAGES WE SENT MESSENGERS
AND SENT DOWN WITH THEM SCRIPTURES
AND SENT DOWN THE JUST MEASURE
AND WE SENT DOWN IRON IN WHICH IS MATTER
FOR MIGHTY WAR AS WELL AS MANY OTHER
BENEFITS FOR MEN THAT GOD MAY TEST THE HELPERS 
THAT WILL HELP HIM UNSEEN AND HIS MESSENGERS
FOR GOD IS FULL OF STRENGTH AND EXALTED IN POWER

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CHAPTER 57.  IRON                                                                        SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

26  AND WE SENT NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND OTHERS
AND GAVE THEIR OFFSPRING PROPHETHOOD AND SCRIPTURE
AND SOME OF THEM WERE RIGHTEOUS DOERS 
AND SOME OF THEM WERE IN MANIFEST ERROR

27  WE FOLLOWED THEM UP WITH OTHERS OF OUR APOSTLES
WE SENT  JESUS, THE SON OF MARY, AND GAVE HIM THE GOSPELS 

AND WE ORDAINED IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM 
COMPASSION AND MERCY, BUT THE MONASTICISM 
WHICH THEY INVENTED WE DID NOT PRESCRIBE FOR THEM

WE ONLY ORDERED THE SEEKING OF GOD'S PLEASURE 
BUT THAT THEY DID NOT FOSTER 
AS THEY SHOULD HAVE ENDEAVORED
YET WE REWARDED THOSE WHO WERE BELIEVERS 
BUT MANY OF THEM ARE REBELLIOUS TRANSGRESSORS

28  OH YOU WHO ARE BELIEVERS 
FEAR GOD AND BELIEVE IN HIS MESSENGER
AND HE WILL GIVE YOU DOUBLE PORTIONS OF HIS FAVORS 
HE WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT BY WHICH YOU WILL WALK STRAIGHTER  
AND WILL FORGIVE YOU YOUR PAST FOR HE IS THE MERCIFUL FORGIVER

29  THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK MAY KNOW OF HIS GRACE
AND THEY HAVE NO POWER OVER GOD'S GRACE 
THAT ENTIRELY IN HIS HAND IS HIS GRACE 
ON WHOEVER HE PLEASES HE BESTOWS HIS GRACE
FOR GOD IS THE LORD OF UNBOUNDED GRACE 

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