96-1 : Read in the name of your Lord Who created.

96-2 : He created man from a clot.

96-3 : Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,

96-4 : Who taught (to write) with the pen

96-5 : Taught man what he knew not.

96-6 : Nay! man is most surely inordinate,

96-7 : Because he sees himself free from want.

96-8 : Surely to your Lord is the return.

96-9 : Have you seen him who forbids

96-10 : A servant when he prays?

96-11 : Have you considered if he were on the right way,

96-12 : Or enjoined guarding (against evil)?

96-13 : Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back?

96-14 : Does he not know that Allah does see?

96-15 : Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,

96-16 : A lying, sinful forehead.

96-17 : Then let him summon his council,

96-18 : We too would summon the braves of the army.

96-19 : Nay! obey him not, and make obeisance and draw nigh (to Allah).