Al-Alaq

سُورَةُ العَلَقِ

19 Ayahs 4 Topics Meccan

Topics in this Surah

Order for reading, learning and writing

Ayah 1 - 5

ﲅ ﲆ ﲇ ﲈ ﲉ

READ IN THE name of your Lord who created,

ﲋ ﲌ ﲍ ﲎ

Created man from an embryo;

ﲐ ﲑ ﲒ

Read, for your Lord is most beneficent,

ﲔ ﲕ ﲖ

Who taught by the pen,

ﲘ ﲙ ﲚ ﲛ ﲜ

Taught man what he did not know.

The nature of man and his forgetfulness of the hereafter

Ayah 6 - 8

ﲞ ﲟ ﲠ ﲡ

And yet, but yet man is rebellious,

ﲣ ﲤ ﲥ

For he thinks he is sufficient in himself.

ﲧ ﲨ ﲩ ﲪ

Surely your returning is to your Lord.

The threat to bullies

Ayah 9 - 19

ﲬ ﲭ ﲮ

Have you seen him who restrains

ﲰ ﲱ ﲲ

A votary when he turns to his devotions?

ﲴ ﲵ ﲶ ﲷ ﲸ

Have you thought, if he had been on guidance

ﲺ ﲻ ﲼ

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

ﱁ ﱂ ﱃ ﱄ

Have you thought that if he denies and turns away,

ﱆ ﱇ ﱈ ﱉ ﱊ

Does he not know that God sees?

ﱌ ﱍ ﱎ ﱏ ﱐ ﱑ

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

ﱓ ﱔ ﱕ

By the lying, the sinful forelock.

ﱗ ﱘ

So let him call his associates,

ﱚ ﱛ

We shall call the guards of Hell.

ﱝ ﱞ ﱟ ﱠﱡ ﱢﱣ

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