Al-Alaq العلق
Read, in your Guardian's name اقرأ باسم ربّك
Summary and links in the frieze
In the frieze He is ordered to read in his Guardian's name, and to prostrate without yielding to the one who stops him.
Read just before, 97 leads here: What was sent down in the Night of Measure is read: the next sura commands "Read, in the name of your Guardian". 97
It leads to 95: Created from a clinging form, the human being exceeds all measure; next, he is created in the most beautiful stature, then brought low. 95
Closes on “They ask one another”
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
Read, in the name of your Guardian who created!
اقرا باسم ربك الذي خلق
He created the human being from a clinging form.
خلق الانسن من علق
Read! And your Guardian is the Most Generous, who taught by the pen, taught the human being what he did not know.
اقرا وربك الاكرم الذي علم بالقلم علم الانسن ما لم يعلم
By no means! The human being surely exceeds all measure, because he sees himself self-sufficient.
كلا ان الانسن ليطغي ان راه استغني
To your Guardian is the return.
ان الي ربك الرجعي
Have you seen the one who forbids an obedient one when he makes the Contact?
اريت الذي ينهي عبدا اذا صلي
Have you seen if he is upon guidance, or enjoins guardedness?
اريت ان كان علي الهدي او امر بالتقوي
Have you seen if he denies and turns his back? Does he not know that God sees?
اريت ان كذب وتولي الم يعلم بان الله يري
By no means! If he does not desist, We will surely seize him roughly by the forelock, a lying forelock, at fault!
كلا لين لم ينته لنسفعا بالناصيه ناصيه كذبه خاطيه
Then let him call his assembly; We will call Our own.
فليدع ناديه سندع الزبانيه
By no means! Do not defer to him, but prostrate and draw near.
كلا لا تطعه واسجد واقترب