Clot (al-’Alaq)

Your Lord created man from a clinging substance.

6. Man transgresses because he sees himself self-sufficient.

7. Indeed, to your Lord is the return.

8. Have you seen the one who forbids

9. A servant when he prays?

10. Have you seen if he is upon guidance

11. Or enjoins righteousness?

12. Have you seen if he denies and turns away –

13. Does he not know that AllŒh sees?

14. No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock

15. A lying, sinning forelock.

16. Then let him call his associates;

17. We will call the angels of Hell. 1823

18. 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.