He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned (his) back, 1 Because there came to him the blind man. 2 But what would make you perceive, [O Muhammad], that perhaps he might be purified 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 To him do you address yourself. 6 although it is not for you to be concerned if he remained unpurified. 7 but as for one who comes to you, eagerly 8 And he feareth 9 you ignore him. 10 Nay, (do not do like this), indeed it (these Verses of this Quran) are an admonition, 11 (and whoso wills, shall remember it) 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 Exalted, Purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 Who are noble, virtuous. 16 Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is! 17 Out of what did Allah create him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then made his passage easy (at birth); 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 and then, whenever He wishes, He will raise him back to life. 22 No indeed! Man has not accomplished His bidding. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 For that We pour forth water in abundance, 25 and then We cleave the earth [with new growth,] cleaving it asunder, 26 We make the grain grow out of it, 27 together with grapes and vegetables, 28 and olive trees and date-palms, 29 and dense-tree'd gardens, 30 And fruit and grass - 31 an enjoyment for you and your flocks. 32 At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- 33 on that Day a man shall flee from his own brother, 34 And his mother and his father, 35 his wife and his children. 36 Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. 37 Many a face will be glittering on that day. 38 laughing, joyous; 39 And many will be dust-begrimed, 40 Blackness overcoming them. 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. 42