He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 from a blind man who had come up to him. 2 And what could let you know? Perhaps he (comes to hear you) to be purified. 3 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? 4 As for him who thinketh himself independent, 5 to him thou attendest 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge] 8 and who has fear of God, 9 From him you are distracted. 10 No indeed, this is a Reminder; 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 lofty and pure, 14 by the hands of the noble, virtuous, 15 Who are noble, virtuous. 16 Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah; 17 Of what did He create him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 Then maketh the way easy for him, 20 Then He causes him to die, and puts him in his grave; 21 and then, whenever He wishes, He will raise him back to life. 22 Nay, but man did not fulfil what Allah had enjoined upon him. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 We poured water, pouring it in great abundance, 25 Then We cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder, 26 And We cause therein the grain to grow, 27 and grape vines and vegetables, 28 and olives, and palms, 29 and gardens dense with foliage, 30 and fruits and fodder 31 A provision for you and your cattle. 32 But when the Shout cometh 33 On the Day a man will flee from his brother 34 his mother and his father, 35 As well as his wife and children. 36 On that day, each one has just one issue, which is enough for him. 37 Some faces on that day will be radiant, 38 Laughing, joyous. 39 And other faces, that Day, will be dust-stained; 40 Darkness shall cover them. 41 Those, they are the unbelievers, the immoral. 42