Al-Alaq

ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ

Read, ˹O Prophet,˺ in the Name of your Lord Who created—

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

created humans from a clinging clot.

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ

Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ

Who taught by the pen—

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ

taught humanity what they knew not.

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ

Most certainly, one exceeds all bounds

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ

once they think they are self-sufficient.

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ

˹But˺ surely to your Lord is the return ˹of all˺.

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ

Have you seen the man who prevents

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ

a servant ˹of Ours˺ from praying?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ

What if this ˹servant˺ is ˹rightly˺ guided

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ

or encourages righteousness?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

What if that ˹man˺ persists in denial and turns away?

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ

Does he not know that Allah sees ˹all˺?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ

But no! If he does not desist, We will certainly drag him by the forelock—

نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ

a lying, sinful forelock.

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ

So let him call his associates.

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ

We will call the wardens of Hell.

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩

Again, no! Never obey him ˹O Prophet˺! Rather, ˹continue to˺ prostrate and draw near ˹to Allah˺.