{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq096.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq096.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq096.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. Proclaim! (or Read!)\n In the name\n Of thy Lord and Cherisher,\n Who created\u2014\n2. Created man, out of\n A (mere) clot\n Of congealed blood:\n3. Proclaim! And thy Lord\n Is Most Bountiful,\u2014\n4. He Who taught\n (The use of) the Pen,\u2014\n5. Taught man that\n Which he knew not.\n6. Nay, but man doth\n Transgress all bounds,\n7. In that he looketh\n Upon himself as self-sufficient.\n8. Verily, to thy Lord\n Is the return (of all).\n9. Seest thou one\n Who forbids\u2014\n10. A votary when he\n (Turns) to pray?\n11. Seest thou if\n He is on (the road\n Of) Guidance?\u2014\n12. Or enjoins Righteousness?\n13. Seest thou if he\n Denies (Truth) and turns away?\n14. Knoweth he not\n That God doth see?\n15. Let him beware! If he\n Desist not, We will\n Drag him by the forelock,\u2014\n16. A lying, sinful forelock!\n17. Then, let him call\n (For help) to his council\n (Of comrades):\n18. We will call\n On the angels of punishment\n (To deal with him)!\n19. Nay, heed him not:\n But bow down in adoration,\n And bring thyself\n The closer (to God)!","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra XCVI. Iqraa, or Read! or Procla...","type":"page"}