96: Al-Alaq (العلق)
1: Read in the name of your Lord Who created.
2: He created man from a clot.
3: Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,
4: Who taught (to write) with the pen
5: Taught man what he knew not.
6: Nay! man is most surely inordinate,
7: Because he sees himself free from want.
8: Surely to your Lord is the return.
9: Have you seen him who forbids
10: A servant when he prays?
11: Have you considered if he were on the right way,
12: Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?
13: Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?
14: Does he not know that Allah does see?
15: Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
16: A lying, sinful forehead.
17: Then let him summon his council,
18: We too would summon the braves of the army.
Prostration - السَّجْدَۃِ
19: Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).
