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Ahmed Ali

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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
Ahmed Ali (English) :
READ IN THE name of your Lord who created,

96:2 خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ
96:2
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Created man from an embryo;

96:3 ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ
96:3
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Read, for your Lord is most beneficent,

96:4 ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ
96:4
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Who taught by the pen,

96:5 عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ
96:5
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Taught man what he did not know.

96:6 كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ
96:6
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And yet, but yet man is rebellious,

96:7 أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ
96:7
Ahmed Ali (English) :
For he thinks he is sufficient in himself.

96:8 إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ
96:8
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Surely your returning is to your Lord.

96:9 أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ
96:9
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Have you seen him who restrains

96:10 عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ
96:10
Ahmed Ali (English) :
A votary when he turns to his devotions?

96:11 أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ
96:11
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Have you thought, if he had been on guidance

96:12 أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ
96:12
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Or had enjoined piety, (it would have been better)?

96:13 أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ
96:13
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Have you thought that if he denies and turns away,

96:14 أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ
96:14
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Does he not know that God sees?

96:15 كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ
96:15
Ahmed Ali (English) :
And yet indeed if he does not desist We shall drag him by the forelock,

96:16 نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
96:16
Ahmed Ali (English) :
By the lying, the sinful forelock.

96:17 فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ
96:17
Ahmed Ali (English) :
So let him call his associates,

96:18 سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ
96:18
Ahmed Ali (English) :
We shall call the guards of Hell.

96:19 كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩
96:19
Ahmed Ali (English) :
Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord).