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Iqra biismi rabbika allathee khalaqa
Shakir
Read in the name of your Lord Who created.
Al Alaq
Chapter 96, 19 verses
Transliteration
Khalaqa alinsana min AAalaqin
Shakir
He created man from a clot.
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Iqra warabbuka alakramu
Shakir
Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,
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Allathee AAallama bialqalami
Shakir
Who taught (to write) with the pen
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AAallama alinsana ma lam yaAAlam
Shakir
Taught man what he knew not.
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Kalla inna alinsana layatgha
Shakir
Nay! man is most surely inordinate,
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An raahu istaghna
Shakir
Because he sees himself free from want.
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Inna ila rabbika alrrujAAa
Shakir
Surely to your Lord is the return.
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Araayta allathee yanha
Shakir
Have you seen him who forbids
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AAabdan itha salla
Shakir
A servant when he prays?
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Araayta in kana AAala alhuda
Shakir
Have you considered if he were on the right way,
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Aw amara bialttaqwa
Shakir
Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?
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Araayta in kaththaba watawalla
Shakir
Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?
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Alam yaAAlam bianna Allaha yara
Shakir
Does he not know that Allah does see?
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Kalla lain lam yantahi lanasfaAAan bialnnasiyati
Shakir
Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
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Nasiyatin kathibatin khatiatin
Shakir
A lying, sinful forehead.
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FalyadAAu nadiyahu
Shakir
Then let him summon his council,
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SanadAAu alzzabaniyata
Shakir
We too would summon the braves of the army.
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Kalla la tutiAAhu waosjud waiqtarib
Shakir
Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).