سورة العلق، الآية ١٥
كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ١٥
kallā la-in lam yantahi lanasfaʿan bil-nāṣiyati
No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock1952 –
[1952] It may also mean "slap him" or "blacken his face at the forelock."
Verse 15 of Surah Al-’Alaq (96:15), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 597 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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It is not as this ignorant person imagines; if he does not stop causing harm to My servant and rejecting him, I will definitely seize him and drag him violently by the top of his head, towards the hellfire.
No indeed; if he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock5
[5] To the Hellfire.
Nay! If he (Abû Jahl) ceases not, We will catch him by the forelock -
Nay, but if he cease not We will seize him by the forelock -
Let him beware! If he desist not, We will drag him by the forelock,-
Nay! if he desist not, We would certainly smite his forehead,
Not at all! Indeed in case he does not refrain, We will indeed trail him by the forelock,
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Abu Jahl asked (the people of Makkah): "Does Muhammad place his face on the ground in your presence?" It was said to him: 'Yes.' He said: "By Al-Lāt and Al-‘Uzza! If I were to see him do that, I would trample his neck, or I would smear his…
هَلْ يُعَفِّرُ مُحَمَّدٌ وَجْهَهُ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِكُمْ قَالَ فَقِيلَ نَعَمْ . فَقَالَ وَاللاَّتِ وَالْعُزَّى لَئِنْ رَأَيْتُهُ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ لأَطَأَنَّ عَلَى رَقَبَتِهِ أَوْ لأُعَفِّرَنَّ وَجْهَهُ فِي التُّرَابِ -…
لَوْ فَعَلَهُ لأَخَذَتْهُ الْمَلاَئِكَةُ "
