1. Read!
In the Name of your Lord,
Who has created (all that exists),

2. Created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).

3. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous,

4. Who has taught by the pen,

5. Taught man which he knew not.

6. Nay! Verily, man does transgress all bounds.

7. Because he considers himself self-sufficient.

8. Surely! Unto your Lord is the return.

9. Have you seen he who prevents,

10. A slave when he prays?

11. Tell me, if he is on guidance?

12. Or enjoins righteousness?

13. Tell me if he denies, and turns away?

14. Knows he not that Allah does see?

15. Nay! If he doesn't stop, We will catch him by the forelock,

16. A lying, sinful forelock!

17. Then, let him call upon his associates,

18. We will call the guards of Hell!

19. Nay! Do not obey him. Fall prostrate and draw near to Allah!