He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 when the blind man approached him, 2 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 To him you attend; 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 And to him who came to you eagerly 8 and in awe [of God] 9 you pay no heed to him. 10 By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: 11 So whosoever willeth - let him be admonished therewlth. 12 On honoured leaves 13 Exalted and purified, 14 By the hands of scribes. 15 and angelic scribes. 16 Accursed be man! How stubbornly he denies the Truth. 17 From what has God created him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 and made the path of guidance easy for him to follow. 20 Then He causes him to die and be buried. 21 Then, when He willed, He brought him out. (As during the night of Holy Prophet’s ascension, when all the Prophets gathered behind him in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Or when Allah will raise everyone on the Day of Resurrection.) 22 No! Man has not yet accomplished what He commanded him. 23 Let man consider his food: 24 We poured down rain abundantly, 25 then We split the earth in fissures 26 And We made corn grow, 27 grapes, and fresh fodder, 28 And Olives and Dates, 29 and gardens dense with foliage, 30 And fruits and herbage: 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 And when the Blast shall sound, 33 On the Day whereon a man shall flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 And his wife and his children, 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Some faces that Day will be beaming, 38 laughing, joyous; 39 And faces on that Day! upon them shall be gloom. 40 Darkness will cover them, 41 those will be ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity. 42