Qabasيَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُواْ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ وَخَلَقَ مِنۡهَا زَوۡجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنۡهُمَا رِجَالٗا كَثِيرٗا وَنِسَآءٗۚ وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِي تَسَآءَلُونَ بِهِۦ وَٱلۡأَرۡحَامَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ رَقِيبٗا ١
Yā'ayyuhan-nāsut-taqū rabbakumul-ladhī khalaqakum min nafsin wāhidatin wakhalaqa minhā zawjahā wabattha minhumā rijālan kathīran wanisā'an wattaqullāhal-ladhī tasā'alūna bihī wal-arhāma innallāha kāna 'alaykum raqībā
O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allāh, through whom156 you ask one another,157 and the wombs.158 Indeed Allāh is ever,159 over you, an Observer.160
Footnotes
156 In whose name.
157 i.e., request favors and demand rights.
158 i.e., fear Allāh in regard to relations of kinship.
159 When used in conjunction with Allāh's attributes, the word "ever" (occurring repeatedly throughout this sūrah and elsewhere, such as in sūrah al-Aḥzāb) is quite inadequate in imparting the sense of continuation expressed by the word "kāna" in Arabic, which indicates "always was, is, and always will be."
160 Ever-present and taking account of everything.