He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ He 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 As for he who is sufficed 5 To him you attend; 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 As for the one who comes to you earnestly (striving for guidance). 8 And he feareth 9 From him will you divert yourself. 10 NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder: 11 So let him who pleases mind it. 12 Inscribed in Writs honoured, 13 Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, 14 Written by the hands of emissaries. 15 noble and purified. 16 Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is! 17 From what thing did He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 Then when He listeth, He shall raise him to life. 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 Let man consider his food: 24 It is We Who pour forth water, pouring, 25 and then We cleave the earth [with new growth,] cleaving it asunder, 26 And produce therein corn, 27 And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle), 28 and olives and palms, 29 And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, 30 And fruits and fodder,- 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 But when the Shout cometh 33 upon the day when a man shall flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 And his spouse and his son-- 36 For every man, that Day, will be a matter adequate for him. 37 Many faces will that day be bright, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news; 39 Some faces on that Day shall be dust-ridden, 40 with darkness overspread: 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones. 42