Clot (al-’Alaq)
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Your Lord created man from a clinging substance.
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Man transgresses because he sees himself self-sufficient.
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To your Lord is the return.
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Have you seen the one who forbids
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A servant when he prays?
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Have you seen if he is upon guidance 12. Or enjoins righteousness?
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Have you seen if he denies and turns away –
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Does he not know that AllŒh sees?
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No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock
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A lying, sinning forelock.
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Then let him call his associates;
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We will call the angels of Hell. 1823
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No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near [to AllŒh].
97. Decree (al-Qadr)
1-5 We sent the Quran down on the Night of Decree. That Night is better than a thousand months.
The angels and Gabriel descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter.
Then there is be peace until the rise of dawn.