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Read in the name of your Lord Who created. |
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He created man from a clot. |
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Read and your Lord is Most Honorable, |
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Who taught (to write) with the pen |
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Taught man what he knew not. |
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Nay! man is most surely inordinate, |
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Because he sees himself free from want. |
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Surely to your Lord is the return. |
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Have you seen him who forbids |
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A servant when he prays? |
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Have you considered if he were on the right way, |
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Or enjoined guarding (against evil)? |
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Have you considered if he gives the lie to the truth and turns (his) back? |
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Does he not know that Allah does see? |
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Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead, |