He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ (The Prophet) frowned and turned away, 1 that the blind man came to him. 2 What made you think that he will not grow in virtue, 3 or yet remember, and the Reminder profit him. 4 As for him who considers himself free from need (of you), 5 you eagerly attended to him -- 6 although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity; 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 And he fears, 9 him didst thou disregard! 10 No indeed; this is only a Reminder. 11 and whosoever wills, shall remember it. 12 in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity, 13 Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 Honourable and obedient. 16 Woe to man! How ungrateful he is! 17 From what has God created him? 18 Out of a sperm-drop did He create him and then determined a measure for him, 19 Then He eased the way for him; 20 then causes him to die and buries him, 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 Nay, but man did not fulfil what Allah had enjoined upon him. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 It is We Who pour forth water, pouring, 25 and let the earth to break open 26 and therein made the grains to grow 27 And grapes and fodder, 28 and olives and palms, 29 And gardens, dense with many trees, 30 And fruit and grass - 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 But when there comes the Deafening Blast 33 on that Day a man shall flee from his own brother, 34 And his mother and his father, 35 As well as his wife and children. 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 (Many) faces on that day shall be bright, 38 and be cheerful and joyous. 39 And (many) faces on that day, on them shall be dust, 40 and overcast with gloom: 41 These will be the faces of the sinful disbelievers. 42