He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 when the blind man approached him, 2 How canst thou know, whether haply he might be cleansed, 3 Or be admonished, and the admonition profit him? 4 As for him who regardeth himself self-sufficient 5 Unto him thou attendest. 6 though you will not be questioned even if he never purifies himself. 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 And is afraid (of Allah and His Punishment), 9 of him you were unmindful. 10 No! Indeed, these verses are a reminder; 11 So whoso wills may give heed to it. 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 exalted and purified, 14 In the hands of scribes 15 noble and pious. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 From what thing doth He create him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 then eased his path for him, 20 Then gave him death, so had him put in the grave. 21 Then, when He willed, He brought him out. (As during the night of Holy Prophet’s ascension, when all the Prophets gathered behind him in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Or when Allah will raise everyone on the Day of Resurrection.) 22 Indeed, he has not fulfilled that which He has ordered him. 23 Let Man consider his nourishment. 24 That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance, 25 Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts], 26 to yield therein corn, 27 grapes, and fresh fodder, 28 And olives and date-palms, 29 And enclosed gardens luxuriant. 30 And fruits and fodder: 31 as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. 32 So when the deafening Shout arrives, 33 it will be such a day when a person will run away from his brother, 34 his mother and his father, 35 And his wife and his children, 36 Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. 37 on that Day some faces will be beaming, 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 with darkness overspread: 41 Such will be the Kafarah (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him), etc.), the Fajarah (wicked evil doers). 42