The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists), 1 Hath created man from a clot! 2 Read: And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous, 3 who taught by the Pen, 4 He taught the human being what he did not know. 5 Nay, but verily man is rebellious 6 because he thinks himself self-sufficient: 7 Verily, to thy Lord is the return (of all). 8 What do you think? Have you seen he who forbids 9 A servant when he prays? 10 Did you consider: what if he is on the Right Way, 11 or orders piety? 12 Have you seen if he denies and turns away - 13 Did he not realise that Allah is watching? 14 Let him know that if he does not desist, We shall certainly drag him by his forelocks, 15 A lying, sinful forelock! 16 Then let him call his associates; 17 and We too will call the stern and angry keepers of hell. 18 Nay, pay thou no heed to him, but prostrate thyself [before God] and draw close [unto Him]! ۩ 19
God Almighty has spoken the truth.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)