He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ The Prophet frowned and turned away 1 because the blind man approached him! 2 How could you know? Perhaps he would cleanse himself, 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 Unto him thou payest regard. 6 although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity; 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 and in awe [of God] 9 You neglect. 10 NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder: 11 So let him who pleases mind it. 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 lofty and pure, 14 by the hands of the noble, virtuous, 15 noble and most virtuous. 16 May (the disbelieving) human being be condemned! What makes him disbelieve? 17 From what did He create him? 18 Out of a sperm-drop did He create him and then determined a measure for him, 19 Then He eased the way for him; 20 Then causeth him to die, and burieth him; 21 Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life. 22 Nay; but he has not done what He bade him. 23 Let man consider his food: 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 and let the earth to break open 26 And cause the grain to grow therein 27 And grapes and clover, 28 and olive trees and date palms 29 thickly planted gardens, 30 And fruits and fodder,- 31 all this as a provision for you and your cattle. 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, his father, 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern. 37 Some faces will shine, 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 Some faces on that Day shall be dust-ridden, 40 and veiled with darkness. 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42