The Embryo (Al-Alaq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Recite in the name of your Lord Who created, 1 created Man of a blood-clot. 2 Read, and your Lord only is the Most Beneficent, 3 who taught by the pen, 4 Taught man what he knew not. 5 No indeed; surely Man waxes insolent, 6 that he sees himself sufficed. 7 truly, all will return to your Lord. 8 Bethinkest thou him who forbiddeth, 9 A votary when he turns to his devotions? 10 What thinkest thou? If he were upon guidance 11 and enjoins piety? 12 What will happen if the prohibiting rejects the Truth and turns away from it!? 13 Does he not realize that God sees him? 14 No indeed; if he does not desist, We shall drag him by the forelock; 15 A lying, sinning forelock. 16 Then let him summon his council, 17 We too shall summon the guards of Hell. 18 No indeed; do thou not obey him, and bow thyself, and draw nigh. ۩ 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)