He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away. 1 from a blind man who had come up to him. 2 But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?- 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient, 5 To him you give attention. 6 though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself -- 7 but as for one who comes to you, eagerly 8 and fearfully, 9 to him thou payest no heed. 10 Nay, (do not do like this), indeed it (these Verses of this Quran) are an admonition, 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 Inscribed in Writs honoured, 13 Exalted (in dignity), purified, 14 borne by the hands of scribes, 15 Honourable and Virtuous. 16 Perish the human! How unthankful he is! 17 From what has God created him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 Then causeth him to die, and burieth 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 No indeed! Man has not accomplished His bidding. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 and then We cleave the earth [with new growth,] cleaving it asunder, 26 And We made corn grow, 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olive and palm trees 29 And dense gardens, 30 and fruit and pastures, 31 as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. 32 When the trumpet sounds, 33 On the day when a man fleeth from his brother 34 And from his mother and father, 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Many faces will that day be bright, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news; 39 And many will be dust-begrimed, 40 Veiled in darkness, 41 Those! they are the infidels, the ungodly. 42