He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the 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 What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace) 3 Or be admonished, so that the admonition might have profited him? 4 As for he who thinks himself without need, 5 to him didst thou give thy whole attention, 6 And you have nothing to lose if he does not become pure. 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 and in awe of God 9 you pay no heed to him. 10 Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. 11 Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance. 12 On honoured leaves 13 Exalted and purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 May man be slain – how ungrateful he is! 17 Of what thing did He create him? 18 Out of a sperm-drop did He create him and then determined a measure for him, 19 and made the path of guidance easy for him to follow. 20 Then He causes him to die, and puts him in his grave; 21 then, when He wills, He raises him. 22 Yet man declines to do His bidding. 23 Let man consider his food: 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 then caused the grain to grow out of it, 27 And grapes and fodder, 28 and olives and palms, 29 and dense orchards, 30 And fruits and fodder,- 31 (These are made so as to be) means of enjoyment for you and your cattle. 32 But when the great calamity comes 33 on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, 34 and from his mother and father, 35 And his spouse and his son-- 36 on that Day each will be occupied with his own business, making him oblivious of all save himself. 37 Many faces will that day be bright, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 Dust shall cover them 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. 42