Al-'Alaq — English Translation

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ﴿1﴾

Read in the name of your Lord Who created.

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ﴿2﴾

He created man from a clot.

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ ﴿3﴾

Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ ﴿4﴾

Who taught (to write) with the pen

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ﴿5﴾

Taught man what he knew not.

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ ﴿6﴾

Nay! man is most surely inordinate,

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ ﴿7﴾

Because he sees himself free from want.

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ ﴿8﴾

Surely to your Lord is the return.

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ ﴿9﴾

Have you seen him who forbids

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ ﴿10﴾

A servant when he prays?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ ﴿11﴾

Have you considered if he were on the right way,

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ ﴿12﴾

Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ﴿13﴾

Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ﴿14﴾

Does he not know that Allah does see?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ﴿15﴾

Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,

نَاصِيَةٍۢ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍۢ ﴿16﴾

A lying, sinful forehead.

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ ﴿17﴾

Then let him summon his council,

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ ﴿18﴾

We too would summon the braves of the army.

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩ ﴿19﴾

Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).