Surah Al-'Alaq · The Clot

ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ۝١

iq'ra bi-is'mi rabbika alladhī khalaq

Recite in the name of your Lord who created

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ۝٢

khalaqa l-insāna min ʿalaq

Created man from a clinging substance.

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ ۝٣

iq'ra warabbuka l-akram

Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous -

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ ۝٤

alladhī ʿallama bil-qalam

Who taught by the pen

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ۝٥

ʿallama l-insāna mā lam yaʿlam

Taught man that which he knew not.

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ ۝٦

kallā inna l-insāna layaṭghā

No! [But] indeed, man transgresses

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ ۝٧

an raāhu is'taghnā

Because he sees himself self-sufficient.

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ ۝٨

inna ilā rabbika l-ruj'ʿā

Indeed, to your Lord is the return.

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ ۝٩

ara-ayta alladhī yanhā

Have you seen the one who forbids

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ ۝١٠

ʿabdan idhā ṣallā

A servant when he prays?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ ۝١١

ara-ayta in kāna ʿalā l-hudā

Have you seen if he is upon guidance

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ ۝١٢

aw amara bil-taqwā

Or enjoins righteousness?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ۝١٣

ara-ayta in kadhaba watawallā

Have you seen if he denies and turns away -

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ۝١٤

alam yaʿlam bi-anna l-laha yarā

Does he not know that Allāh sees?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ۝١٥

kallā la-in lam yantahi lanasfaʿan bil-nāṣiyah

No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock

نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ۝١٦

nāṣiyatin kādhibatin khāṭi-ah

A lying, sinning forelock.

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ ۝١٧

falyadʿu nādiyah

Then let him call his associates;

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ ۝١٨

sanadʿu l-zabāniyah

We will call the angels of Hell.

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩ ۝١٩

kallā lā tuṭiʿ'hu wa-us'jud wa-iq'tarib

No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near [to Allāh].