The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Read! In the name of your Lord, who created: 1 Created man from a clinging substance. 2 Recite: and your Lord is Most Generous, 3 who taught by the pen, 4 Taught man what he knew not. 5 Yet man behaves arrogantly, 6 because he thinks himself self-sufficient: 7 Surely to your Lord is the return. 8 Hast thou seen him who dissuadeth 9 a worshipper from praying? 10 Did you consider: what if he is on the Right Way, 11 or bade to godfearing -- 12 What will happen if the prohibiting rejects the Truth and turns away from it!? 13 Does he not know that Allah sees? 14 Let him know that if he does not desist, We shall certainly drag him by his forelocks, 15 A lying, sinning forelock. 16 So let him call his associates, 17 We will call the angels of Hell. 18 No, indeed; do not obey him! Prostrate and come nearer (to Allah). ۩ 19
God the Almighty always says the truth.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)