He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because the blind man had come in his august presence. 2 And what would make you know that he would purify himself, 3 Or be admonished, and the admonition profit him? 4 As for he who thinks himself without need, 5 to him didst thou give thy whole attention, 6 And you have nothing to lose if he does not become pure. 7 As for him who comes to you striving (after goodness), 8 and in awe [of God] 9 you ignore him. 10 By no means! Verily it is an admonition. 11 and so, whoever is willing may remember Him 12 On honoured leaves 13 lofty and pure, 14 In the hands of scribes (angels). 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is! 17 From what substance did He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him, 19 He makes his path easy for him. 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again). 22 Not one – he has not yet completed what he was commanded. 23 Let man reflect on the food he eats. 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 and split the earth, splitting, 26 And We made corn grow, 27 grapes, vegetables, 28 and the olive, and the palm, 29 the densely tree'd gardens, 30 fruits, and grass. 31 Provision for you and your cattle. 32 At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- 33 That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, 34 and his mother and his father; 35 and his consort and his children; 36 on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern. 37 [Some] faces, that Day, will be bright - 38 Laughing and full of joy, 39 And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust. 40 enveloped by darkness. 41 These will be the faces of the sinful disbelievers. 42