The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Recite in the name of your Lord who created - 1 created man from a clot of congealed blood. 2 Read! Your Lord is the Most Generous, 3 The One Who taught to write with the pen. 4 taught man what he did not know! 5 Nay, surely man transgresses; 6 because he thinks himself self-sufficient: 7 Lo! unto thy Lord is the return. 8 Have you seen the one who prohibits 9 A bondman of Ours when he prayeth 10 What thinkest thou? If he were upon guidance 11 Or enjoins righteousness? 12 Have you thought that if he denies and turns away, 13 Did he not know that God sees? 14 No indeed; if he does not desist, We shall drag him by the forelock; 15 The lying, sinful forelock - 16 So, let him call upon his way! 17 and We too will call the stern and angry keepers of hell. 18 Nay, heed him not: But bow down in adoration, and bring thyself the closer (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)