In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 
| |1*	Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created- 
| |2*	Created man, out of a leech-like clot: 
| |3*	Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- 
| |4*	He Who taught (the use of) the Pen,- 
| |5*	Taught man that which he knew not. 
| |6*	Nay, but man doth transgress all bounds, 
| |7*	In that he looketh upon himself as self-sufficient. 
| |8*	Verily, to thy Lord is the return (of all). 
| |9*	Seest thou one who forbids- 
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