The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Recite: In the Name of thy Lord who created, 1 created Man of a blood-clot. 2 Read! Your Lord is the Most Generous, 3 Who taught by the pen - 4 taught man what he did not know. 5 Nay, surely man transgresses; 6 because he thinks that he is independent. 7 Surely! Unto your Lord is the return. 8 Have you seen the one who forbids 9 a worshipper from praying? 10 Do you think he is rightly guided, 11 Or he commandeth piety? 12 Have you thought that if he denies and turns away, 13 Does he not realize that God sees him? 14 Nay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead 15 by the lying forelock steeped in sin. 16 Then, let him call (for help) to his council (of comrades): 17 We, will call the Zabania (the harsh angels of Hell). 18 Nay, pay thou no heed to him, but prostrate thyself [before God] and draw close [unto Him]! ۩ 19
True are the words of God the Almighty.
End of Surah: The Embryo (Al-Alaq). Sent down in Mecca. First revelation of the Quran before
The Pen (Al-Qalam)