Recite, in the name of your Lord, who created:
who created humankind from a clot of blood.
Recite, for your Lord is most generous,
who taught by the pen,
taught humankind what it did not know.
Oh, no! Humankind does indeed go too far
in regarding itself as self-sufficient:
in fact the return is to your Lord.
Do you see the one who forbids
the servant from prayer?
Do you see if he is on guidance,
or directs others to be conscientious?
Do you see if he repudiates truth and turns away?
Does he not know God sees?
Oh, no! If he does not desist,. We will drag him by the forelock,
a lying sinning forelock.
Let him call upon his associates then:
We will call the keepers of hell.
Oh, no! Do not obey him: bow down and draw closer to God.