English - Chapter 96 - Al-Alaq

Recite: In the Name of thy Lord who created

created Man of a blood-clot

Recite: And thy Lord is the Most Generous

who taught by the Pen

taught Man that he knew not

No indeed; surely Man waxes insolent

for he thinks himself self-sufficient

Surely unto thy Lord is the Returning

What thinkest thou? He who forbids

a servant when he prays

or bade to godfearing

What thinkest thou? If he cries lies, and turns away

Did he not know that God sees

No indeed; surely, if he gives not over, We shall seize him by the forelock

a lying, sinful forelock

So let him call on his concourse

We shall call on the guards of Hell

No indeed; do thou not obey him, and bow thyself, and draw nigh