Shakir
Read in the name of your Lord Who created.
Arabic
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اقرأ باسم ربك الذي خلق
Al Alaq
Chapter 96, 19 verses
Shakir
He created man from a clot.
Arabic
خلق الإنسان من علق
Shakir
Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,
Arabic
اقرأ وربك الأكرم
Shakir
Who taught (to write) with the pen
Arabic
الذي علم بالقلم
Shakir
Taught man what he knew not.
Arabic
علم الإنسان ما لم يعلم
Shakir
Nay! man is most surely inordinate,
Arabic
كلا إن الإنسان ليطغى
Shakir
Because he sees himself free from want.
Arabic
أن رآه استغنى
Shakir
Surely to your Lord is the return.
Arabic
إن إلى ربك الرجعى
Shakir
Have you seen him who forbids
Arabic
أرأيت الذي ينهى
Shakir
A servant when he prays?
Arabic
عبدا إذا صلى
Shakir
Have you considered if he were on the right way,
Arabic
أرأيت إن كان على الهدى
Shakir
Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?
Arabic
أو أمر بالتقوى
Shakir
Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?
Arabic
أرأيت إن كذب وتولى
Shakir
Does he not know that Allah does see?
Arabic
ألم يعلم بأن الله يرى
Shakir
Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
Arabic
كلا لئن لم ينته لنسفعا بالناصية
Shakir
A lying, sinful forehead.
Arabic
ناصية كاذبة خاطئة
Shakir
Then let him summon his council,
Arabic
فليدع ناديه
Shakir
We too would summon the braves of the army.
Arabic
سندع الزبانية
Shakir
Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).
Arabic
كلا لا تطعه واسجد واقترب ۩