He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because there came to him the blind man (i.e. 'Abdullah bin Umm-Maktum, who came to the Prophet (Peace be upon him) while he was preaching to one or some of the Quraish chiefs). 2 But what could tell you that per chance he might become pure (from sins)? 3 Or be admonished, so that the admonition might have profited him? 4 As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient, 5 You pay full attention, 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 And he who comes to thee eagerly 8 and who has fear of God, 9 him didst thou disregard! 10 Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. 11 So let him who pleases mind it. 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 uplifted, purified, 14 by the hands of scribes 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 From what did He create him? 18 From a (sperm) drop He created him and then determined him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave, 21 and then, if it be His will, He shall raise him again to life, 22 Nay, but (man) has not done what He commanded him. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 How We pour water in showers 25 Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts], 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle), 28 olives, dates, 29 And gardens, dense with many trees, 30 and fruits and herbage, 31 [As] enjoyment for you and your grazing livestock. 32 But when the deafening blast is sounded, 33 on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, 34 Mother and father, 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 For every one of them on that Day shall be business enough to occupy 37 Many a face will be glittering on that day. 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 Darkness shall cover them. 41 Those, they are the unbelievers, the immoral. 42