He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because the blind man came unto him. 2 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 or yet remember, and the Reminder profit him. 4 Yet you pay attention 5 you attend to him, 6 although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity; 7 but as for him who came unto thee full of eagerness 8 And hath fear, 9 So you leave him, and are engrossed elsewhere! 10 These verses are a reminder 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, 14 borne by the hands of scribes, 15 noble and purified. 16 Accursed is man. How ungrateful is he! 17 From what did He create him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 Then maketh the way easy for him, 20 Then He causes him to die, and puts him in his grave; 21 Then, when it is His Will, He will resurrect him (again). 22 But no. He has not fulfilled what was enjoined on him. 23 Let man therefore consider (the sources of) his food. 24 how We pour down rain in abundance, 25 and cleaved the earth, cleaving it asunder; 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 grapes, vegetables, 28 and olives, and palms, 29 And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, 30 and fruits and pastures – 31 [As] enjoyment for you and your grazing livestock. 32 But when the deafening cry shall be sounded 33 on that Day each person will flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 And his wife and his sons; 36 For every one of them on that Day shall be business enough to occupy 37 Some faces on that Day shall be beaming with happiness, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 And many a face will be covered with dust on that day. 40 and covered by darkness. 41 These will be the faces of the sinful disbelievers. 42