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1 Iqra biismi rabbika allathee khalaqa

1 Read in the name of your Lord Who created.

2 Khalaqa alinsana min AAalaqin

2 He created man from a clot.

3 Iqra warabbuka alakramu

3 Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,

4 Allathee AAallama bialqalami

4 Who taught (to write) with the pen

5 AAallama alinsana ma lam yaAAlam

5 Taught man what he knew not.

6 Kalla inna alinsana layatgha

6 Nay! man is most surely inordinate,

7 An raahu istaghna

7 Because he sees himself free from want.

8 Inna ila rabbika alrrujAAa

8 Surely to your Lord is the return.

9 Araayta allathee yanha

9 Have you seen him who forbids

10 AAabdan itha salla

10 A servant when he prays?

11 Araayta in kana AAala alhuda

11 Have you considered if he were on the right way,

12 Aw amara bialttaqwa

12 Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?

13 Araayta in kaththaba watawalla

13 Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?

14 Alam yaAAlam bianna Allaha yara

14 Does he not know that Allah does see?

15 Kalla lain lam yantahi lanasfaAAan bialnnasiyati

15 Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,

16 Nasiyatin kathibatin khatiatin

16 A lying, sinful forehead.

17 FalyadAAu nadiyahu

17 Then let him summon his council,

18 SanadAAu alzzabaniyata

18 We too would summon the braves of the army.

19 Kalla la tutiAAhu waosjud waiqtarib

19 Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).