The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
READ IN THE name of your Lord who created, 1 He created man from a clot. 2 Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- 3 Who teacheth by the pen, 4 taught man what he did not know! 5 And yet, but yet man is rebellious, 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Indeed towards your Lord only is the return. 8 Seest thou one who forbids- 9 A bondman when he offers the prayer? 10 What thinkest thou? If he were upon guidance 11 or if he commands others to maintain piety!? 12 Do you see how he has denied the truth and turned away from it? 13 Is he then unaware that Allah seeth? 14 By no means! If he desist not We shall seize and deal him by the forelock 15 by the lying forelock steeped in sin. 16 So let him call his associates, 17 We will call on the angels of punishment (to deal with him)! 18 Nay, heed him not: But bow down in adoration, and bring thyself the closer (to Allah)! ۩ 19
Almighty God's Truth.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)