READ IN THE name of your Lord who created
Created man from an embryo
Read, for your Lord is most beneficent
Who taught by the pen
Taught man what he did not know
And yet, but yet man is rebellious
For he thinks he is sufficient in himself
Surely your returning is to your Lord
Have you seen him who restrain
A votary when he turns to his devotions
Have you thought, if he had been on guidanc
Or had enjoined piety, (it would have been better)
Have you thought that if he denies and turns away
Does he not know that God sees
And yet indeed if he does not desist We shall drag him by the forelock
By the lying, the sinful forelock
So let him call his associates
We shall call the guards of Hell
Beware! Do not obey him, but bow in adoration and draw near (to your Lord)