He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ HE FROWNED AND turned away, 1 Because there came to him the blind man. 2 And what do you know, he may be of the pure! 3 Or take heed and so the reminder might avail him? 4 But the self-sufficient, 5 To him dost thou attend; 6 though you are not to blame if he would not cleanse himself. 7 But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge] 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 Him thou neglectest! 10 Assuredly this is a reminder 11 So whoso wills may give heed to it. 12 in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity, 13 Exalted, purified, 14 by the hands of scribes 15 Noble, virtuous. 16 Accursed be man! How stubbornly he denies the Truth. 17 Of what thing hath He created him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 Then made his passage easy (at birth); 20 Then gave him death, so had him put in the grave. 21 then, He will raise him when He wills. 22 Indeed, he has not fulfilled that which He has ordered him. 23 Then let man look to his food, 24 We poured out the rains abundantly, 25 Thereafter We cleave the earth in clefts, 26 Then We cause to grow therein the grain, 27 And grapes and clover plants (i.e. green fodder for the cattle), 28 And the olive and the palm, 29 And thick gardens, 30 And fruits and grass, 31 for you and for your herds to delight in. 32 Then, when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the Day of Resurrection's second blowing of Trumpet), 33 it will be such a day when a person will run away from his brother, 34 and his mother and his father; 35 And from his wife and sons. 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 on that Day some faces will be beaming, 38 laughing and joyful, 39 And many a face will be covered with dust on that day. 40 Dust shall cover them 41 these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity! 42