The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Read! In the name of your Lord, who created: 1 Created man from a clinging substance. 2 Read! Your Lord is the Most Generous, 3 Who taught by the pen, 4 taught Man that he knew not. 5 Nay, surely man transgresses; 6 for he believes himself to be self-sufficient. 7 Surely to your Lord is the return. 8 Have you seen him who forbids 9 A bondman when he offers the prayer? 10 Have you thought, if he had been on guidance 11 Or enjoins righteousness? 12 What will happen if the prohibiting rejects the Truth and turns away from it!? 13 Does he, then, not know that God sees [all]? 14 Nay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead 15 his lying, sinful forelock. 16 Then, let him call upon his council (of helpers), 17 We shall call the guards of Hell. 18 No indeed; do thou not obey him, and bow thyself, and draw nigh. ۩ 19
Allah 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)