He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away. 1 that the blind man came to him. 2 But what would make you perceive, [O Muhammad], that perhaps he might be purified 3 or he might be mindful and good counsel might avail him. 4 As for him who considers himself free from need (of you), 5 Unto him thou attendest. 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 Of him wast thou unmindful. 10 Nay, (do not do like this), indeed it (these Verses of this Quran) are an admonition, 11 and whosoever wills, shall remember it. 12 In honored books, 13 Exalted, purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Accursed is man. How ungrateful is he! 17 Of what substance God created him? 18 From a drop of liquid; He created him and then set several measures for him. 19 and then makes it easy for him to go through life; 20 and in the end He causes him to die and brings him to the grave; 21 Then when He listeth, He shall raise him to life. 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 Then let man look to his food, 24 How We poured down water in torrents, 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it, 27 and grape vines and vegetables, 28 And olives and date-palms, 29 And gardens of dense shrubbery 30 And fruits and herbage 31 for you and for your animals to enjoy. 32 AND SO, when the piercing call [of resurrection] is heard 33 on that Day each person will flee from his brother, 34 And from 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 [Some] faces, that Day, will be bright - 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news. 39 And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered, 40 Veiled in darkness, 41 These will be the faces of the sinful disbelievers. 42