English - Chapter 96 - Al-Alaq

READ IN THE name of your Lord who created

Created man from an embryo

Read, for your Lord is most beneficent

Who taught by the pen

Taught man what he did not know

And yet, but yet man is rebellious

For he thinks he is sufficient in himself

Surely your returning is to your Lord

Have you seen him who restrains

A votary when he turns to his devotions

Have you thought, if he had been on guidance

Or had enjoined piety, (it would have been better)

Does he not know that God sees

And yet indeed if he does not desist We shall drag him by the forelock

By the lying, the sinful forelock

So let him call his associates

We shall call the guards of Hell

Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord)