He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the 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 that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 As for him who regardeth himself self-sufficient 5 you attended to him, 6 though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself -- 7 And to him who came to you eagerly 8 And whereas he fears, 9 to him thou payest no heed. 10 Nay! surely it is an admonishment. 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 (This Quran) is also recorded in honorable books, 13 exalted, purified, 14 [Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels, 15 Honourable and obedient. 16 Accursed be man! How stubbornly he denies the Truth. 17 From what thing did He create him? 18 Of a sperm-drop He created him, and determined him, 19 Then made his passage easy (at birth); 20 Then gave him death, so had him put in the grave. 21 Then, when He will, He bringeth him again to life. 22 Nay, but man did not fulfil what Allah had enjoined upon him. 23 So man must look at his food. 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 Then split the earth in clefts 26 Thereby produced grain in it. 27 and vines, and reeds, 28 and olive trees and date palms 29 And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, 30 And fruits and grass, 31 A provision for you and your cattle. 32 But when the deafening cry shall be sounded 33 on the Day when each man shall flee from his brother, 34 And from his mother and father, 35 And from his wife and sons. 36 for on that day everyone will be completely engrossed in his own concerns. 37 Faces on that Day shall be beaming, 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 but some faces will be covered with dust 40 and overcast with gloom: 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. 42