He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ (The Prophet (Peace be upon him)) frowned and turned away, 1 from a blind man who had come up to him. 2 How canst thou know, whether haply he might be cleansed, 3 Or be reminded and the remembrance would benefit him? 4 Now as for him who believes himself to be self-sufficient 5 to a rich man, 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge] 8 And hath fear, 9 From him you are distracted. 10 Assuredly this is a reminder 11 and whosoever wills, shall remember it. 12 (This Quran) is also recorded in honorable books, 13 Exalted, pure. 14 (Written) by the hands of scribes- 15 noble and most virtuous. 16 Accursed be man! How stubbornly he denies the Truth. 17 From what has God created him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 Then made his passage easy (at birth); 20 Then He causes him to die, and puts him in his grave; 21 Then when He wills, He will resurrect him. 22 Nay, but man did not fulfil what Allah had enjoined upon him. 23 Then let man look at his food, 24 We poured water, pouring it in great abundance, 25 and let the earth to break open 26 And We made corn grow, 27 And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle), 28 And olive-trees and palm-trees 29 And garden-closes of thick foliage 30 And fruit and grass - 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 When the trumpet sounds, 33 On that day man will run away from his brother. 34 Mother and father, 35 and his consort and his children; 36 Everyone on that Day will have affairs to keep him occupied. 37 Some faces on that day will be radiant, 38 laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings. 39 And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered, 40 and veiled with darkness. 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