He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, 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 that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 For him who does not care, 5 to him didst thou give thy whole attention, 6 although it is not for you to be concerned if he remained unpurified. 7 but as for one who comes to you, eagerly 8 And is afraid (of Allah and His Punishment), 9 So you leave him, and are engrossed elsewhere! 10 Nay, (do not do like this), indeed it (these Verses of this Quran) are an admonition, 11 For any one who desires to bear it in mind, 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 lofty and pure, 14 By the hands of scribes. 15 noble, pious. 16 May man be slain – how ungrateful he is! 17 Of what substance God created him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then maketh the way easy for him, 20 then makes him to die, and buries him, 21 then, He will raise him when He wills. 22 Nay; but he has not done what He bade him. 23 Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it): 24 That We pour forth water in abundance, 25 and then We cleave the earth [with new growth,] cleaving it asunder, 26 We make the grain grow out of it, 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 and olives, and palms, 29 and dense orchards, 30 And fruits and herbage: 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- 33 it will be such a day when a person will run away from his brother, 34 mother, father, 35 his wife and his sons: 36 Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. 37 Some faces on that day will be radiant, 38 Laughing and full of joy, 39 And other faces, that Day, will be dust-stained; 40 Blackness will cover them. 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42