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Surah Al-’Alaq transliteration

سورة العلق

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Here is Surah Al-’Alaq (“The Clot”) in transliteration: each of its 19 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.

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Letters with a bar (ā, ī, ū) are long, ʿ marks the letter ʿayn, ḥ, ṣ, ḍ, ṭ, ẓ the emphatic letters. Hover over or tap an Arabic word to see its meaning.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi

ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ۝١

iq'ra bi-is'mi rabbika alladhī khalaqa

1. Recite in the name of your Lord who created –

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ۝٢

khalaqa l-insāna min ʿalaqin

2. Created man from a clinging substance.

ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ ۝٣

iq'ra warabbuka l-akramu

3. Recite, and your Lord is the most Generous -

ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ ۝٤

alladhī ʿallama bil-qalami

4. Who taught by the pen –

عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ۝٥

ʿallama l-insāna mā lam yaʿlam

5. Taught man that which he knew not.

كَلَّآ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَيَطْغَىٰٓ ۝٦

kallā inna l-insāna layaṭghā

6. No! [But] indeed, man transgresses

أَن رَّءَاهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰٓ ۝٧

an raāhu is'taghnā

7. Because he sees himself self-sufficient.

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ ۝٨

inna ilā rabbika l-ruj'ʿā

8. Indeed, to your Lord is the return.

أَرَءَيْتَ ٱلَّذِى يَنْهَىٰ ۝٩

ara-ayta alladhī yanhā

9. Have you seen the one who forbids

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰٓ ۝١٠

ʿabdan idhā ṣallā

10. A servant when he prays?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ ۝١١

ara-ayta in kāna ʿalā l-hudā

11. Have you seen if he is upon guidance

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِٱلتَّقْوَىٰٓ ۝١٢

aw amara bil-taqwā

12. Or enjoins righteousness?

أَرَءَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰٓ ۝١٣

ara-ayta in kadhaba watawallā

13. Have you seen if he denies and turns away -

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ۝١٤

alam yaʿlam bi-anna l-laha yarā

14. Does he not know that Allāh sees?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًۢا بِٱلنَّاصِيَةِ ۝١٥

kallā la-in lam yantahi lanasfaʿan bil-nāṣiyati

15. No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock¹⁹⁵² –

Notes

[1952] It may also mean "slap him" or "blacken his face at the forelock."

نَاصِيَةٍ كَٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ۝١٦

nāṣiyatin kādhibatin khāṭi-atin

16. A lying, sinning forelock.

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُۥ ۝١٧

falyadʿu nādiyahu

17. Then let him call his associates;

سَنَدْعُ ٱلزَّبَانِيَةَ ۝١٨

sanadʿu l-zabāniyata

18. We will call the angels of Hell.¹⁹⁵³

Notes

[1953] Those who push the wicked into the Fire.

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَٱسْجُدْ وَٱقْتَرِب ۝١٩

kallā lā tuṭiʿ'hu wa-us'jud wa-iq'tarib

19. No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near [to Allāh].

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