The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
READ IN THE name of your Lord who created, 1 created man from a clot [of blood]. 2 Read, and your Lord only is the Most Beneficent, 3 who, by the pen, taught the human being: 4 taught man what he did not know. 5 Indeed, surely the human is very insolent 6 because he thinks himself self-sufficient: 7 Indeed, to your Lord is the return. 8 Have you seen the one who prohibits 9 A servant when he prays? 10 Have you thought, if he had been on guidance 11 or bade to godfearing -- 12 Have you thought that if he denies and turns away, 13 Does he not know that Allah does see? 14 Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead, 15 A forelock that lies, is sinful. 16 Then let him call his associates; 17 We will now call the guards! 18 Nay, pay thou no heed to him, but prostrate thyself [before God] and draw close [unto Him]! ۩ 19
Almighty God's Truth.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)