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 congealed blood. 2 Read, and your Lord only is the Most Beneficent, 3 who has taught [man] the use of the pen 4 Has taught man that which he knew not. 5 Despite this, the human being still tends to rebel 6 Because he sees himself free from want. 7 Surely to your Lord is your return. 8 What thinkest thou? He who forbids 9 A bondman of Ours when he prayeth 10 Did you consider: what if he is on the Right Way, 11 Or enjoins Righteousness? 12 Did you consider: what if he gives the lie (to the Truth) and turns away (from it)? 13 Does he not know that God sees? 14 No indeed; if he does not desist, We shall drag him by the forelock; 15 his lying, sinful forelock. 16 So let him call on his concourse! 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
True are the words of Allah the Almighty.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)