The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Recite in the name of your Lord who created - 1 Created man from a clinging substance. 2 Read, and your Lord only is the Most Beneficent, 3 Who hath taught mankind by the pen 4 taught man what he did not know! 5 Nay, but verily man is rebellious 6 for he thinks himself self-sufficient. 7 Lo! unto thy Lord is the return. 8 What thinkest thou? He who forbids 9 a worshipper from praying? 10 What thinkest thou? If he were upon guidance 11 Or enjoineth piety? 12 Have you seen if he denies and turns away - 13 does he not know that Allah sees? 14 No indeed; if he does not desist, We shall drag him by the forelock; 15 a lying, sinful forelock. 16 Then let him summon his council, 17 We too shall summon the guards of Hell. 18 Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord). ۩ 19
God Almighty has spoken the truth.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)