اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ
Read in the name of your Lord who created.
Clot · al-'Alaq · سورة العلق · 19 ayahs
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
Created man from a clinging clot.
اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ
Read, and your Lord is the Most Generous.
الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ
He who taught by the pen.
عَلَّمَ الْإِنْسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ
Taught man what he did not know.
كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَيَطْغَىٰ
No! Truly man transgresses.
أَنْ رَآهُ اسْتَغْنَىٰ
When he sees himself self-sufficient.
إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَىٰ
Surely to your Lord is the return.
أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهَىٰ
Have you seen the one who forbids.
عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰ
A servant when he prays?
أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَىٰ
Have you seen if he was upon guidance.
أَوْ أَمَرَ بِالتَّقْوَىٰ
Or commanded God-consciousness?
أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Have you seen if he denied and turned away?
أَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ
Does he not know that God sees?
كَلَّا لَئِنْ لَمْ يَنْتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ
No! If he does not stop, We will drag him by the forelock.
نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
A lying, sinful forelock.
فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ
So let him call his associates.
سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ
We will call the angels of Hell.
كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِبْ ۩
No! Do not obey him. Prostrate and draw near.