He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 when the blind came to him. 2 How canst thou know, whether haply he might be cleansed, 3 Or that he may accept advice, so the advice may benefit him. 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 So you are after him! 6 Though it is not your concern if he should not grow (in fulness). 7 As for the one who comes to you earnestly (striving for guidance). 8 and in awe [of God] 9 Him thou neglectest! 10 Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. 11 So whoso wills may give heed to it. 12 [It is recorded] in honored sheets, 13 Exalted and purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 noble and pious. 16 [But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth! 17 Of what substance God created him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 then eased his path for him, 20 Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave, 21 Then when He pleases, He will raise him to life again. 22 Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him. 23 Let man reflect on the food he eats. 24 That We watered it in abundance. 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 Then We cause to grow therein the grain, 27 grapes, and fresh fodder, 28 and olive trees and date palms 29 and dense orchards, 30 And fruits and fodder,- 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 Then when cometh the Deafening Cry 33 on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 And from his wife and sons. 36 Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. 37 Faces on that Day shall be beaming, 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 Darkness will cover them, 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42