Chapter 96, 19 verses
Read in the name of your Lord Who created.
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ
He created man from a clot.
خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,
اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ
Who taught (to write) with the pen
الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ
Taught man what he knew not.
عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ
Nay! man is most surely inordinate,
كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَىٰ
Because he sees himself free from want.
أَن رَّآهُ اسْتَغْنَىٰ
Surely to your Lord is the return.
إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَىٰ
Have you seen him who forbids
أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهَىٰ
A servant when he prays?
عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰ
Have you considered if he were on the right way,
أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَىٰ
Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?
أَوْ أَمَرَ بِالتَّقْوَىٰ
Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?
أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Does he not know that Allah does see?
أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ
Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ
A lying, sinful forehead.
نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
Then let him summon his council,
فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ
We too would summon the braves of the army.
سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ
Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).
كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِب ۩