He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because the blind man came unto him. 2 How could you know? Perhaps he would cleanse himself, 3 Or become reminded so that the reminder should profit him? 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 you eagerly attended to him -- 6 And you have nothing to lose if he does not become pure. 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 and who has fear of God, 9 you pay no heed to him. 10 NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder: 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 (It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour, 13 Exalted, purified, 14 by the hands of scribes 15 Noble, virtuous. 16 Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is! 17 Of what [stuff] has He created him? 18 From a drop of liquid; He created him and then set several measures for him. 19 Then He eased the way for him; 20 then causes him to die and buries him, 21 Then He will raise him up again when He please. 22 Indeed, he has not fulfilled that which He has ordered him. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance, 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 Then We cause therein the grain to grow, 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 And the olive and the palm, 29 Orchards thick with trees, 30 And fruits and herbage: 31 as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. 32 When the trumpet sounds, 33 upon the day when a man shall flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 his wife and his children. 36 Everyman, that Day, will have enough to make him careless of others. 37 Some faces on that day shall shine 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And other faces that Day will be dust-stained, 40 Dust shall cover them 41 Such will be the Kafarah (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him), etc.), the Fajarah (wicked evil doers). 42