# Sura  96 - Thick Blood, or Clots of Blood

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> SURA XCVI (96)  Thick Blood/Clots of Blood   (Mecca - 19 Verses)      (I - 19) 
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Recite thou, in the name of thy Lord who created; -
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>        Created man from Clots of Blood: -
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>        Recite thou!  For thy Lord is the most Beneficent,
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>        Who hath taught the use of the pen; -
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>        Hath taught Man that which he knoweth not.
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>        Nay, verily, Man is insolent,
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>        Because he seeth himself possessed of riches.
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>        Verily, to thy Lord is the return of all.
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>        What thinkest thou of him that holdeth back
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> 96:10  A servant of God when he prayeth?
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>        What thinkest thou?  Hath he followed the true Guidance, or enjoined
> Piety?
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>        What thinkest thou?  Hath he treated the truth as a lie and turned his
> back?
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>        What! doth he not know how that God seeth?
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>        Nay, verily, if he desist not, We shall seize him by the forelock,
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>        The lying sinful forelock!
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>        Then let him summon his associates;
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>        We too will summon the guards of Hell:
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>        Nay! obey him not; but adore, and draw nigh to God.
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> — *Sura  96 - Thick Blood, or Clots of Blood*