Al-Alaq

ٱقۡرَأۡ بِٱسۡمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ١

Read in the Name of your Lord who created;

خَلَقَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مِنۡ عَلَقٍ ٢

created man from a clinging mass.

ٱقۡرَأۡ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلۡأَكۡرَمُ ٣

Read, and your Lord is the most generous,

ٱلَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِٱلۡقَلَمِ ٤

who taught by the pen,

عَلَّمَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمۡ يَعۡلَمۡ ٥

taught man what he did not know.

كـَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ لَيَطۡغَىٰٓ ٦

Indeed man becomes rebellious

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسۡتَغۡنَىٰٓ ٧

when he considers himself without need.

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجۡعَىٰٓ ٨

Indeed to your Lord is the return.

أَرَءَيۡتَ ٱلَّذِي يَنۡهَىٰ ٩

Tell me, he who forbids

عَبۡدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ ١٠

a servant when he prays,

أَرَءَيۡتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰٓ ١١

tell me, should he be on [true] guidance,

أَوۡ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقۡوَىٰٓ ١٢

or bid [others] to Godwariness,

أَرَءَيۡتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ١٣

tell me, should he call him a liar and turn away

أَلَمۡ يَعۡلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ١٤

—does he not know that Allah sees [him]?

كـَلَّا لَئِن لَّمۡ يَنتَهِ لَنَسۡفَعَۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ١٥

No indeed! If he does not cease, We shall seize him by the forelock,

نَاصِيَةٖ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٖ ١٦

a lying, sinful forelock!

فَلۡيَدۡعُ نَادِيَهُۥ ١٧

Then let him call out his gang!

سَنَدۡعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ ١٨

We [too] shall call the keepers of hell.

كـَلَّا لَا تُطِعۡهُ وَٱسۡجُدۡۤ وَٱقۡتَرِب۩ ١٩

No indeed! Do not obey him, but prostrate and draw near [to Allah]!