Verse. 6111

٩٦ - ٱلْعَلَق

96 - Al-Alaq

عَلَّمَ الْاِنْسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ۝۵ۭ
AAallama alinsana ma lam yaAAlam

English

Ahmed Ali

Taught man what he did not know.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (teacheth man) writing with the pen (that which be knew not) before this; it is also said: he taught man the names of all things which he previously did not know.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : taught man (al-insān: the generic) what he did not know, before he was taught, in the way of guidance, [the art of] writing, crafts and so on.