He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ The Prophet frowned and turned away 1 Because there came to him the blind man. 2 And what would make you know that he would purify himself, 3 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? 4 As for him who regardeth himself self-sufficient 5 you attend to him, 6 Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding). 7 But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly, 8 And he feareth 9 From him will you divert yourself. 10 These verses are a reminder 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 (Contained) in honoured pages, 13 uplifted, purified, 14 Written by the hands of emissaries. 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 Of what did He create him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 and then made the course of life easy for him, 20 then causes him to die and buries him, 21 Then, when He willed, He brought him out. (As during the night of Holy Prophet’s ascension, when all the Prophets gathered behind him in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Or when Allah will raise everyone on the Day of Resurrection.) 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 We poured water, pouring it in great abundance, 25 Then We cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder, 26 And produce therein corn, 27 And grapes and vegetables 28 Olives and dates, 29 And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, 30 And fruits and fodder: 31 as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. 32 But when the deafening blast is sounded, 33 On that day man will run away from his 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) faces on that day shall be bright, 38 laughing, joyous; 39 And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered, 40 with darkness overspread: 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