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96:1  Recite, in the name of your Lord, who created:
96:2  who created humankind from a clot of blood.
96:3  Recite, for your Lord is most generous,
96:4  who taught by the pen,
96:5  taught humankind what it did not know.
96:6  Oh, no! Humankind does indeed go too far
96:7  in regarding itself as self-sufficient:
96:8  in fact the return is to your Lord.
96:9  Do you see the one who forbids
96:10  the servant from prayer?
96:11  Do you see if he is on guidance,
96:12  or directs others to be conscientious?
96:13  Do you see if he repudiates truth and turns away?
96:14  Does he not know God sees?
96:15  Oh, no! If he does not desist,. We will drag him by the forelock,
96:16  a lying sinning forelock.
96:17  Let him call upon his associates then:
96:18  We will call the keepers of hell.
96:19  Oh, no! Do not obey him: bow down and draw closer to God.