The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Recite: In the Name of thy Lord who created, 1 He created man from a clot of blood. 2 Recite! Your Lord is the most Honorable One, 3 who, by the pen, taught the human being: 4 The One Who taught man all what he did not know. 5 Nay! man is most surely inordinate, 6 Because he considers himself self-sufficient. 7 However, (all things) will return to your Lord. 8 Have you seen him who restrains 9 a servant (of Allah) when he prays? 10 Seest thou if he is on (the road of) Guidance?- 11 or bade to godfearing -- 12 What do you think? Have you seen if he belies and turns away, 13 Does he not know that God sees? 14 Nay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead 15 a lying, sinful forelock. 16 Then, let him call his assembly, 17 We will call on the angels of punishment (to deal with him)! 18 Nay! (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))! Do not obey him (Abu Jahl). Fall prostrate and draw near 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)