Recite in the name of your Lord who created,
created the human being from Alaq (web of relations).
Recite, and your Lord is the most generous,
Who taught by the pen.
He taught the human being that which he knew not.
No! [But] indeed, the human being transgresses
because he sees himself self-sufficient.
Indeed, to your Lord is the return.
Have you seen the one who forbids
a servant from praying?
Have you seen if he is on [the road of] guidance?
Or enjoins righteousness?
Have you seen if he rejects and turns away?
Does he not know that God sees?
No! If he doesn’t stop, We will surely drag him by the forelock,
a lying, sinning forelock.
Then let him call his associates;
We will call the angels of Hell.
No! Do not obey him. But prostrate yourselves and draw near [to God].