The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Read (Prophet Muhammad) in the Name of your Lord who created, 1 Hath created man from a clot! 2 Recite! Your Lord is the most Honorable One, 3 Who hath taught mankind by the pen 4 The One Who taught man all what he did not know. 5 Yet man behaves arrogantly, 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Surely! Unto your Lord is the return. 8 Did you see 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 Knows he not that Allah does see (what he does)? 14 Let him beware! If he desist not, We will drag him by the forelock,- 15 A lying, sinful forehead. 16 So let him call on his concourse! 17 We will now call the guards! 18 Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord). ۩ 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)