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 Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity, 3 or receive some (Quranic) advice which would benefit him. 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 To him dost thou attend; 6 Whereas it is not on thee that he is not cleansed. 7 But as to him who came to you running. 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 From him will you divert yourself. 10 Nay, (do not do like this), indeed it (these Verses of this Quran) are an admonition, 11 So whoever wills, let him pay attention to it. 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 Exalted and purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 Noble and dutiful. 16 Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he! 17 Of what thing hath He created him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 Then He makes the Path easy for him; 20 Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave; 21 then, when He wills, He raises him. 22 By no means hath he fulfilled what Allah hath commanded him. 23 So man must look at his food. 24 How We pour water in showers 25 and let the earth to break open 26 Then We cause to grow therein the grain, 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olive and palm trees 29 And gardens, dense with many trees, 30 and fruits and pastures – 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 Then, when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the Day of Resurrection's second blowing of Trumpet), 33 On the Day whereon a man shall flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 As well as his wife and children. 36 For every one of them on that Day shall be business enough to occupy 37 Faces on that Day shall be beaming, 38 Laughing, joyous. 39 And many a face will be covered with dust on that day. 40 and overcast with gloom: 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