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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

Read¹ in the name of your Lord² Who created.³

Created man from a clot of congealed blood.⁴

Read, and your Lord is Most Generous.

Who taught knowledge by the pen,⁵

taught man what he did not know.⁶

Indeed not!⁷ Man behaves rebelliously

for he deems himself to be self-sufficient, ⁸

(although) towards your Lord indeed is the return.⁹

Have you seen the one who forbids

a servant when he prays?¹⁰

What do you think: if (the Servant) be on the right path,

or be exhorting to piety?

What do you think, if the one forbidding be belying (the Truth) and turning away?

Does he not know that Allah sees?¹¹

By no means!¹² If he does not desist, We shall drag him by his forelock,

the forelock that is lying and utterly sinful.¹³

So let him call his band of supporters.¹⁴

We, too, shall call the angels of torment.¹⁵

Nay, never! Do not obey him, and prostrate yourself and draw closer (to your Lord).¹⁶