Quran 57:21 — Al-Hadid, verse 21
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
So race for your Lord’s forgiveness and a Garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for those who believe in God and His messengers: that is God’s bounty, which He bestows on whoever He pleases. God’s bounty is infinite.
سَابِقُوا إِلَىٰ مَغْفِرَةٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَجَنَّةٍ عَرْضُهَا كَعَرْضِ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ أُعِدَّتْ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۚ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ
sābiqū ilā maghfiratin min rabbikum wajannatin ʿarḍuhā kaʿarḍi l-samāi wal-arḍi uʿiddat lilladhīna āmanū bil-lahi warusulihi dhālika faḍlu l-lahi yu'tīhi man yashāu wal-lahu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Race to forgiveness from your Lord, and a Garden the breadth whereof is as the breadth of heaven and earth, made ready for those who believe in God and His Messengers. That is the bounty of God; He gives it unto whomsoever He will; and God is of bounty abounding.
- Muhammad Asad
- [Hence,] vie with one another in seeking to attain to your Sustainer’s forgiveness, and [thus] to a paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth, which has been readied for those who have attained to faith in God and His Apostle: such is the bounty of God which He grants unto whomever He wills - for God is limitless in His great bounty.
- Sahih International
- Race [i.e., compete] toward forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whose width is like the width of the heavens and earth, prepared for those who believed in Allāh and His messengers. That is the bounty of Allāh which He gives to whom He wills, and Allāh is the possessor of great bounty.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | سَابِقُوٓا۟sābiqū | Race | سبق |
| 2 | إِلَىٰilā | to | — |
| 3 | مَغْفِرَةٍۢmaghfiratin | (the) forgiveness | غفر |
| 4 | مِّنmin | from | — |
| 5 | رَّبِّكُمْrabbikum | your Lord | ربب |
| 6 | وَجَنَّةٍwajannatin | and a Garden | جنن |
| 7 | عَرْضُهَاʿarḍuhā | its width | عرض |
| 8 | كَعَرْضِkaʿarḍi | (is) like (the) width | عرض |
| 9 | ٱلسَّمَآءِl-samāi | (of) the heaven | سمو |
| 10 | وَٱلْأَرْضِwal-arḍi | and the earth | أرض |
| 11 | أُعِدَّتْuʿiddat | prepared | عدد |
| 12 | لِلَّذِينَlilladhīna | for those who | — |
| 13 | ءَامَنُوا۟āmanū | believe | أمن |
| 14 | بِٱللَّهِbil-lahi | in Allah | أله |
| 15 | وَرُسُلِهِۦ ۚwarusulihi | and His Messengers | رسل |
| 16 | ذَٰلِكَdhālika | That | — |
| 17 | فَضْلُfaḍlu | (is the) Bounty | فضل |
| 18 | ٱللَّهِl-lahi | (of) Allah | أله |
| 19 | يُؤْتِيهِyu'tīhi | He gives | أتي |
| 20 | مَنman | (to) whom | — |
| 21 | يَشَآءُ ۚyashāu | He wills | شيأ |
| 22 | وَٱللَّهُwal-lahu | And Allah | أله |
| 23 | ذُوdhū | (is) the Possessor of Bounty | — |
| 24 | ٱلْفَضْلِl-faḍli | (is) the Possessor of Bounty | فضل |
| 25 | ٱلْعَظِيمِl-ʿaẓīmi | the Great | عظم |