He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, 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 And what would make you know that he would purify himself, 3 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? 4 As for he who is sufficed 5 you attended to him, 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 fearfully, 9 you pay him no heed. 10 Not this way – this is the advice. 11 Let him who will, pay heed to it. 12 upon highly honored pages, 13 most exalted and purified, 14 [Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels, 15 Who are noble, virtuous. 16 Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he. 17 Of what thing did He create him? 18 Of a small seed; He created him, then He made him according to a measure, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave, 21 and then, whenever He wishes, He will raise him back to life. 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 Then let man look at his food, 24 We poured out the rains abundantly, 25 and let the earth to break open 26 and therein made the grains to grow 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 and the olive, and the palm, 29 And thick gardens, 30 And fruit and grass - 31 for you and for your animals to enjoy. 32 But when the Shout cometh 33 On the Day a man will flee from his brother 34 And his mother and his father 35 and his consort and his children; 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Some faces will shine, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news (of Paradise). 39 some faces on that day shall be dusty 40 Blackness will cover them: 41 those will be ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity. 42