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Mohammad Habib Shakir

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96 Al-`Alaq ٱلْعَلَق

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

96:1 ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ
96:1
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Read in the name of your Lord Who created.

96:2 خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
96:2
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
He created man from a clot.

96:3 ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ
96:3
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,

96:4 ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ
96:4
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Who taught (to write) with the pen

96:5 عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ
96:5
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Taught man what he knew not.

96:6 كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ
96:6
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Nay! man is most surely inordinate,

96:7 أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ
96:7
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Because he sees himself free from want.

96:8 إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ
96:8
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Surely to your Lord is the return.

96:9 أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ
96:9
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Have you seen him who forbids

96:10 عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ
96:10
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
A servant when he prays?

96:11 أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ
96:11
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Have you considered if he were on the right way,

96:12 أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ
96:12
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?

96:13 أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ
96:13
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?

96:14 أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ
96:14
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Does he not know that Allah does see?

96:15 كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ
96:15
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,

96:16 نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
96:16
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
A lying, sinful forehead.

96:17 فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ
96:17
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Then let him summon his council,

96:18 سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ
96:18
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
We too would summon the braves of the army.

96:19 كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩
96:19
Mohammad Habib Shakir (English) :
Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).