مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ۝١

READ in the name of thy Sustainer, who has-

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ۝٢

created man out of a germ-cell

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ ۝۳

Read - for thy Sustainer is the Most Bountiful One

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ ۝٤

who has taught [man] the use of the pen –

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ۝٥

taught man what he did not know!

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ ۝٦

Nay, verily, man becomes grossly overweening

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ ۝۷

whenever he believes himself to be self-sufficient:

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ ۝۸

for, behold, unto thy Sustainer all must return.

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ ۝۹

HAST THOU ever considered him who tries to prevent

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ ۝١۰

a servant [of God] from praying?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ ۝١١

Hast thou considered whether he is on the right way,

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ ۝١٢

or is concerned with God-consciousness?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ۝١۳

Hast thou considered whether he may [not] be giving the lie to the truth and turning his back [upon it]?

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ۝١٤

Does he, then, not know that God sees [all]?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ۝١٥

Nay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead

نَاصِيَةٍۢ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍۢ ۝١٦

the lying, rebellious forehead! –

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ ۝١۷

and then let him summon [to his aid] the counsels of his own [spurious] wisdom,

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ ۝١۸

[the while] We shall summon the forces of heavenly chastisement!

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۩ ۝١۹

Nay, pay thou no heed to him, but prostrate thyself [before God] and draw close [unto Him]!