The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Recite in the name of your Lord who created - 1 He created man from a clot of blood. 2 Read, and your Lord only is the Most Beneficent, 3 Who taught by the pen, 4 Taught man what he knew not. 5 Nay! man is most surely inordinate, 6 Because he sees himself free from want. 7 Indeed, to your Lord is the return. 8 Have you seen the one who forbids 9 a worshiper when he prays. 10 Have you considered if he were on the right way, 11 Or he commandeth piety? 12 Hast thou considered whether he may [not] be giving the lie to the truth and turning his back [upon it]? 13 Does he not know that God observes all things? 14 Let him know that if he does not desist, We shall certainly drag him by his forelocks, 15 A lying, sinful forelock! 16 Then, let him call his assembly, 17 We too would summon the braves of the army. 18 Nay, pay thou no heed to him, but prostrate thyself [before God] and draw close [unto Him]! ۩ 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)