He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 when the blind man approached him, 2 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 or take heed and derive benefit from [Our] warning? 4 As for him who considers himself free from need (of you), 5 to him thou attendest 6 though you will not be questioned even if he never purifies himself. 7 And to him who came to you eagerly 8 And he fears, 9 From him thou art distracted. 10 No! Indeed, these verses are a reminder; 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 upon highly honored pages, 13 uplifted, purified, 14 By the hands of scribes. 15 Noble, virtuous. 16 Perish man! how ungrateful he is! 17 Of what did He create him? 18 Of a sperm-drop He created him, and determined him, 19 Then maketh the way easy for him, 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 Then when He pleases, He will bring him back to life. 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food: 24 How We pour water in showers 25 And We split the earth in clefts, 26 We make the grain grow out of it, 27 And Grapes and nutritious plants, 28 And the olive and the palm, 29 And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, 30 And fruits and herbage 31 For use and convenience to you and your cattle. 32 But when the deafening cry shall be sounded 33 on that Day each person will flee from his brother, 34 and his mother and his father; 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others). 37 Some faces that Day, will be bright (true believers of Islamic Monotheism). 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 Some faces on that Day shall be dust-ridden, 40 enveloped by darkness. 41 Such will be the Kafarah (disbelievers in Allah, in His Oneness, and in His Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him), etc.), the Fajarah (wicked evil doers). 42