The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Read in the name of your Lord Who created. 1 Createth man from a clot. 2 Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, 3 Who taught by the pen, 4 taught the human what he did not know. 5 And yet, but yet man is rebellious, 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Surely unto thy Lord is the Returning. 8 Have you seen him who forbids 9 a worshipper from praying? 10 Have you thought, if he had been on guidance 11 Or enjoins righteousness? 12 Have you thought that if he denies and turns away, 13 Knows he not that Allah does see (what he does)? 14 And yet indeed if he does not desist We shall drag him by the forelock, 15 A lying, sinful forelock! 16 Then let him call upon his henchmen! 17 We will call the guards of hell. 18 Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah). ۩ 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)