He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 because the blind man approached him! 2 How could you know? Perhaps he would cleanse himself, 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 As for him who is not in want of any thing, 5 To him you attend; 6 although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity; 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 and in awe [of God] 9 So you leave him, and are engrossed elsewhere! 10 By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: 11 So whoso wills may give heed to it. 12 in [the light of His] revelations blest with dignity, 13 exalted, purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 Who are noble, virtuous. 16 Accursed be man! How stubbornly he denies the Truth. 17 Of what thing did He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 Then He caused him to die and be buried 21 Then He will raise him up again when He please. 22 Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him. 23 Let man consider his food: 24 We let the rain pour down in torrents 25 And We split the earth in clefts, 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 grapes, vegetables, 28 olives, dates, 29 the densely tree'd gardens, 30 And fruits and fodder: 31 In order to benefit you and your cattle. 32 So when the deafening Shout arrives, 33 Man will fly from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 Many faces will that day be bright, 38 laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings. 39 And other faces that Day will be dust-stained, 40 Darkness shall cover them. 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42