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Al-Alaq

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سُورَةُ العَلَقِ

Al-Alaq · 19 verses

96 : 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ

Ahmed Ali

READ IN THE name of your Lord who created,

96 : 2

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

Ahmed Ali

Created man from an embryo;

96 : 3

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ

Ahmed Ali

Read, for your Lord is most beneficent,

96 : 4

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ

Ahmed Ali

Who taught by the pen,

96 : 5

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ

Ahmed Ali

Taught man what he did not know.

96 : 6

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

And yet, but yet man is rebellious,

96 : 7

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

For he thinks he is sufficient in himself.

96 : 8

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

Surely your returning is to your Lord.

96 : 9

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Have you seen him who restrains

96 : 10

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

A votary when he turns to his devotions?

96 : 11

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

Have you thought, if he had been on guidance

96 : 12

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

Or had enjoined piety, (it would have been better)?

96 : 13

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

Ahmed Ali

Have you thought that if he denies and turns away,

96 : 14

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ

Ahmed Ali

Does he not know that God sees?

96 : 15

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ

Ahmed Ali

And yet indeed if he does not desist We shall drag him by the forelock,

96 : 16

نَاصِيَةٍۢ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍۢ

Ahmed Ali

By the lying, the sinful forelock.

96 : 17

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ

Ahmed Ali

So let him call his associates,

96 : 18

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ

Ahmed Ali

We shall call the guards of Hell.

96 : 19

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩

Ahmed Ali

Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord).

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