(1) READ in the name of your Lord Who creates,
(2) creates man from a clot!
(3) READ, for your Lord is most Generous;
(4) [it is He] Who teaches by means of the pen,
(5) teaches man what he does not know.
(6) However, man acts so arrogant,
(7) for he considers he is self-sufficient.
(8) Yet to your Lord will be the Return!
(9) Have you seen someone who stops
(10) a worshipper as he prays?
(11) Have you considered whether he is [looking] for guidance
(12) or ordering heedfulness?
(13) Have you seen whether he has rejected [the message] and turned away?
(14) Does he not know that Allah (God) sees [everything]?
(15) Of course not! Yet if he does not stop, We shall strike him into his forelock!
(16) Such a lying, sinful forelock!
(17) Let him appeal to his henchmen:
(18) We shall appeal to the avenging [angels].
(19) Of course, do not obey him; bow down on your knees, and come closer!