Creation and Knowledge
1 Read in the name of your Lord who created
2 Created man from a clot
3 Read and your Lord is the most generous
4 Who taught by the pen
5 Taught man what he did not know
Human Arrogance and Disobedience
6 No indeed man truly transgresses
7 Because he sees himself as self sufficient
8 Indeed to your Lord is the return
Prohibition and Warning
9 Have you seen the one who forbids
10 A servant when he prays
11 Have you seen if he is upon guidance
12 Or commands righteousness
13 Have you seen if he denies and turns away
14 Does he not know that God sees
Consequences of Disbelief
15 No indeed. If he does not stop, We will drag him by the forelock
16 A lying, sinful forelock
17 Then let him call his associates
18 We will call the guards of Hell
Devotion and Nearness to God
19 No, do not obey him. Prostrate and draw near.