He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, 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 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 Or be admonished, and the admonition profit him? 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 you eagerly attended to him -- 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 to him thou payest no heed. 10 No indeed; this is only a Reminder. 11 For any one who desires to bear it in mind, 12 [It is recorded] in honored sheets, 13 Exalted, Purified, 14 By the hands of scribes. 15 Noble and dutiful. 16 Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he. 17 Of what did He create him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then He eased the way for him; 20 Then He caused him to die and made him to be buried. 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 So let man just consider his food: 24 We poured out the rains abundantly, 25 and split the earth, splitting, 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 and vines, and reeds, 28 And olives and date-palms, 29 And dense gardens, 30 and fruit and pastures, 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 But when the great calamity comes 33 upon the day when a man shall flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 his wife and his children. 36 Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others). 37 Faces on that Day shall be beaming, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 but some faces will be covered with dust 40 and overcast with gloom: 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42