Text:Sura al-'Alaq

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.	بِسْمِ الله الرَّحمٰن الرَّحِیم
Read in the Name of your Lord who created; (1)	اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ ‎﴿١﴾
created man from a clinging mass. (2)	خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ‎﴿٢﴾‏
Read, and your Lord is the most generous, (3)	اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ ‎﴿٣﴾‏
who taught by the pen, (4)	الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ ‎﴿٤﴾‏
taught man what he did not know. (5)	عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ‎﴿٥﴾
Indeed man becomes rebellious (6)	كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَىٰ ‎﴿٦﴾‏
when he considers himself without need. (7)	أَن رَّآهُ اسْتَغْنَىٰ ‎﴿٧﴾
Indeed to your Lord is the return. (8)	إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَىٰ ‎﴿٨﴾
Tell me, he who forbids (9)	أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهَىٰ ‎﴿٩﴾
a servant when he prays, (10)	عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰ ‎﴿١٠﴾
tell me, should he be on [true] guidance, (11)	أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَىٰ ‎﴿١١﴾
or bid [others] to Godwariness, (12)	أَوْ أَمَرَ بِالتَّقْوَىٰ ‎﴿١٢﴾
tell me, should he call him a liar and turn away (13)	أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ‎﴿١٣﴾
—does he not know that Allah sees [him]? (14)	أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ‎﴿١٤﴾
No indeed! If he does not cease, We shall seize him by the forelock, (15)	كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ ‎﴿١٥﴾
a lying, sinful forelock! (16)	نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ‎﴿١٦﴾
Then let him call out his gang! (17)	فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ ‎﴿١٧﴾
We [too] shall call the keepers of hell. (18)‏	سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ ‎﴿١٨﴾
No indeed! Do not obey him, but prostrate and draw near [to Allah]! (19)	كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِب ۩ ‎﴿١٩﴾‏

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