He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because there came unto him a blind man. 2 for how can you know that he might seek to purify himself, 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 4 As for him who is not in want of any thing, 5 Unto him thou payest regard. 6 What does it matter to you if he will not become pure (from disbelief, you are only a Messenger, your duty is to convey the Message of Allah). 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 and fears (Allah), 9 You neglect. 10 Nay! surely it is an admonishment. 11 and whosoever wills, shall remember it. 12 In honored books, 13 exalted, purified, 14 Written by the hands of emissaries. 15 Honourable and obedient. 16 Perish man! how ungrateful he is! 17 [Does man ever consider] out of what substance [God] creates him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 Then made his passage easy (at birth); 20 Then He causes him to die and be buried. 21 Then He will raise him up again when He please. 22 By no means he performed not that which He had commanded him. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 How We pour water in showers 25 Then We cracked the earth open under pressure (of germination) 26 Thereby produced grain in it. 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 And olives and date palms, 29 And thick gardens, 30 And fruit and grass - 31 (These are made so as to be) means of enjoyment for you and your cattle. 32 But when the deafening cry comes, 33 That Day shall a man flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father, 35 his wife and his sons: 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Some faces will shine, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 but some faces will be covered with dust 40 Darkness will cover them, 41 Those! they are the infidels, the ungodly. 42