The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Read! In the name of your Lord, who created: 1 Created man from a clot. 2 Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, 3 Who teacheth by the pen, 4 Taught man what he knew not. 5 Despite this, the human being still tends to rebel 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Surely unto thy Lord is the Returning. 8 Have you seen him who restrains 9 a servant [of God] from praying? 10 Have you thought, if he had been on guidance 11 Or had enjoined piety, (it would have been better)? 12 Have you seen if he denies and turns away - 13 Knoweth he not that Allah doth see? 14 Nay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead 15 By the lying, the sinful forelock. 16 So let him call his associates, 17 and We too will call the stern and angry keepers of hell. 18 Yes indeed; do not listen to him – and prostrate, and become close to Us. (Command of Prostration # 14) ۩ 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)