Surat Al-Alaq, the first revelation of the Glorious Quran, that book that guides the faithful and is a testament against the disbelievers.
I decided to post a little nasheed about it from Enshad.net (love their site).
Here’s Wikipedia’s take on the first 5 ayat of Surat Al-Alaq:
“The first five verses of this sura are believed by nearly all sources, both traditional and modern, to be the first verses of the Qur’an to be revealed to Muhammad. A few commentators disagree with this account, claiming that the first revelation was the beginning of surat al-Muddaththir or surat al-Fatiha, but theirs is a minority position.
Those verses state that God created man from a “clot of congealed blood” and give him knowledge. The fetus in the womb in the primary stage before creation of a heart looks like a clot of blood. But al-‘Alaq also means leech-like form, which is similar to primary stage of an embryo and overall a fetus or a child in the womb which sucks its nutrition like a leech from its mother. Another meaning of ‘Alaq is sensitive drop of blood.
Muhammad is first commanded: Iqra!. The literal translation is “recite” or “read”.
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