He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned (his) back, 1 Because there came unto him a blind man. 2 And what should teach thee? Perchance he would cleanse him, 3 or take heed and derive benefit from [Our] warning? 4 As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient, 5 to him thou attendest 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly, 8 And hath fear, 9 him didst thou disregard! 10 Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. 11 Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance. 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 Exalted, Purified, 14 [borne] by the hands of messengers 15 Honourable and Virtuous. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 From what thing doth He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 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 By no means he performed not that which He had commanded him. 23 Then let man look at his food, 24 We send down abundant water, 25 and let the earth to break open 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 And grapes and fodder, 28 Olives and dates, 29 And gardens, dense with many trees, 30 And fruits and grasses: 31 A provision for you and your cattle. 32 At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- 33 on the Day when each man shall flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father, 35 And from his wife and sons. 36 Every man of them shall on that day have an affair which will occupy him. 37 Some faces on that day will be radiant, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered, 40 and veiled with darkness. 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones. 42