العلق

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

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   ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ

   Read in the Name of your Lord who created;

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   خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

   created man from a clinging mass.

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   ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ

   Read, and your Lord is the most generous,

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   ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ

   who taught by the pen,

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   عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ

   taught man what he did not know.

6. 6

   كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ

   Indeed man becomes rebellious

7. 7

   أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ

   when he considers himself without need.

8. 8

   إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ

   Indeed to your Lord is the return.

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   أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ

   Tell me, he who forbids

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    عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ

    a servant when he prays,

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    أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ

    tell me, should he be on [true] guidance,

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    أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ

    or bid [others] to Godwariness,

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    أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ

    tell me, should he call him a liar and turn away

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    أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ

    —does he not know that Allah sees [him]?

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    كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ

    No indeed! If he does not cease, We shall seize him by the forelock,

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    نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ

    a lying, sinful forelock!

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    فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ

    Then let him call out his gang!

18. 18

    سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ

    We [too] shall call the keepers of hell.

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    كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩

    No indeed! Do not obey him, but prostrate and draw near [to Allah]!

Text and translation from the site's own copy (Uthmani script; translation by Ali Quli Qarai).