ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ١
1. Recite in the name of your Lord who created –
Iqra: the first revealed verses
أول ما نزل من القرآن: اقرأ باسم ربك
Iqra: the first revealed verses is found in the Quran: Surah Al-’Alaq (96), verses 1 to 5. Read the Arabic text with its translation and explanation, and listen to it verse by verse.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ٢
2. Created man from a clinging substance.
ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ ٣
3. Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous -
ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ ٤
4. Who taught by the pen –
عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ٥
5. Taught man that which he knew not.
Explanation: Al-Mukhtasar
96:1. O Messenger! Read what Allah reveals to you, starting with the name of your Lord who created the creation.
96:2. He created the human from a clot of congealed blood, after it had been a drop of semen.
96:3. O Messenger! Read what Allah reveals to you. Your Lord is the most Kind; no kind person can come to His kindness, because He has abundant generosity and goodness.
96:4. The one who taught to write, and the revelation, through the pen.
96:5. He taught the human that which he did not know.
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