Al-'Alaq, verse 3
ٱقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْأَكْرَمُ
Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One
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Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
This commentary covers the passage that begins at verse 96:1.
Which was revealed in Makkah This was the First of the Qur'an revealed بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The Beginning of the Prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ and the First of the Qur'an revealed Imam Ahmad recorded that `A'ishah said: The first thing that began happening with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ from the revelation was dreams that he would see in his sleep that would come true. He would not see any dream except that it would come true just like the (clearness of) the daybreak in the morning. Then seclusion became beloved to him.…
Around this verse
- Verse 1 ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ Read! In the name of your Lord who created:
- Verse 2 خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ He created man from a clinging form.
- Verse 3
- Verse 4 ٱلَّذِى عَلَّمَ بِٱلْقَلَمِ who taught by [means of] the pen,
- Verse 5 عَلَّمَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ who taught man what he did not know.