[57:1] Glorifying God constantly is everything in the skies and the land and He is The Almighty, The All Wise.

[57:2] To Him belongs the kingship of the skies and the land, He grants life and death; and He is All Powerful over all things.

[57:3] He is the First and the Last, the Outermost and the Innermost and He has full knowledge of all things.

[57:4] He is The One who created the skies and the land in six days; He then balanced The Dominion. He knows what enters into the ground and what comes out of it, what comes down from the sky and what ascends into it, and He is with you wherever you may be. And God sees everything you do.

[57:5] To Him belongs the kingship of the skies and the land: and all matters are referred to God .

[57:6] He merges the night into the day, and merges the day into the night; and He has full knowledge of the innermost thoughts.

[57:7] You shall believe in God and His messenger, and spend from what He had entrusted you with. Hence, the faithful among you who spend for them deserved a great recompense.

[57:8] And why should you not believe in God and the messenger when he invites you to have faith in your Lord, and has indeed taken a covenant from you, if you are faithful?

[57:9] He is the One who reveals to His servant proven signs that He may take you out of the darkness into the light. And indeed God is All Compassionate, All Merciful towards you.

[57:10] And why should you not spend in the cause of God since to God belongs the heritage of the skies and the land? Not equal amongst you are those who spent and strove before attaining victory. These have attained higher ranks than those who spent and strove after attaining victory. However, to each, God has promised the best. And God fully knows everything you do.

[57:11] Whoever loans God a loan of righteousness, He will repay him manifold, and he will have a generous recompense.

[57:12] The day you see the faithful men and the faithful women with their light shining in front of them and with their blessings of the good news that today Gardens with flowing streams beneath them are yours to abide therein eternally. This is indeed the greatest victory.

[57:13] The day when the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women say to the faithful, hold on; let us acquire some of your light. They will be told; go back to where you came from and search for light. Then, a wall will be raised between them, with a gate therein. Inside, there will be mercy and outside there will be suffering.

[57:14] They will call on them; were we not with you? They will reply, yes but you wronged your souls and waited too long and hesitated and were deceived by wishful thinking until God ’s command was issued and you were deceived by an illusion away from God .

[57:15] Therefore, today no ransom will be accepted from you, or from those who were unfaithful. Your abode is Hell, and it will be your lord and a miserable destiny.

[57:16] Is this not the time for the faithful to humble their hearts through the remembrance of God and what has been revealed to them of truth? They should not become like those who received the scripture previously, but after a long period of time, their hearts hardened. And most of them turned wicked.

[57:17] You shall know that indeed God resurrects the land after its death. We surely explain the Signs for you, that you may use your intelligence.

[57:18] Indeed the charitable men and the charitable women who give God a loan of righteousness, it will be increased for them manifold, and they have deserved a generous recompense.

[57:19] And those who believe in God and His messengers, they are the truthful ones and the witnesses in the sight of their Lord. They shall have their recompense and their light. And those who are unfaithful and reject Our signs, they are the dwellers of the Inferno.

[57:20] You shall know that this worldly life is indeed nothing but play and amusement, boasting and hoarding of money and producing many children. This is the example of the rain delighting the unfaithful as it grew their crops and then they saw it turning yellow and turned into hay. In the Hereafter there is either ultimate suffering or forgiveness from God and approval. And this worldly life is nothing but enjoyment of vanity.

[57:21] You shall race towards seeking forgiveness from your Lord, and a Paradise that its width is as wide as the sky and the land promised to those who believe in God and His messengers. This is God ’s bounty that He bestows upon whomever He wills; and God is Possessor of Infinite Generosity.

[57:22] No accident can happen on the land or to yourselves that is not recorded before We make it happen. That is indeed easy for God .

[57:23] This is so that you may not despair at any loss, nor boast over any gains you achieve. For God does not love any boastful, arrogant.

[57:24] These are the ones who are stingy and exhort people to be stingy. And anyone who turns away, then, indeed God is Rich, Praiseworthy.

[57:25] We indeed sent our messengers with proven signs and revealed with them the scripture and the equilibrium, so that people may stand up for justice; and We sent down the iron, wherein there is high strength as well as many benefits for mankind, and so that God may distinguish those who help Him and His messengers privately. Indeed God is All Powerful, Almighty.

[57:26] And We surely sent Noah and Abraham, and appointed prophets from their progeny and gave them the scripture, as a result, some became guided but many of them turned wicked.

[57:27] We then sent Our messengers in succession and We sent after them Jesus son of Mary, and We gave him the Gospel; and We placed in the hearts of those who followed him compassion and mercy. But the celibacy they invented, We did not prescribe for them, only to seek God ’s approval. However, they did not respect it as they should have rightfully done. We however granted those among them who were faithful, their recompense, but many of them are wicked.

[57:28] O you faithful, fear God , and believe in His messenger, and He will grant you twice from His Mercy. He will provide for you a light by which you can walk and He will forgive you. And God is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

[57:29] This is so that the people of the scripture may know that they have not monopolized a thing of God ’s generosity. That all generosity is indeed in God ’s hand and He bestows it upon whomever He wills. And God possesses infinite generosity.