The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
READ in the name of thy Sustainer, who has created 1 Created man from an embryo; 2 Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous, 3 who has taught [man] the use of the pen 4 Taught man what he did not know. 5 No indeed; surely Man waxes insolent, 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Surely your returning is to your Lord. 8 Seest thou one who forbids- 9 a servant [of God] from praying? 10 Have you seen if he was upon guidance 11 Or he commandeth piety? 12 Did you consider: what if he gives the lie (to the Truth) and turns away (from it)? 13 Did he not realise that Allah is watching? 14 Nay, but if he cease not We will seize him by the forelock - 15 by the lying forelock steeped in sin. 16 Let him call on his associates for help 17 and We too will call the stern and angry keepers of hell. 18 Nay! (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))! Do not obey him (Abu Jahl). Fall prostrate and draw near to Allah! ۩ 19
True are the words of God the Almighty.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)