He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ He frowned and then turned away 1 Because there came to him the blind man, [interrupting]. 2 But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?- 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and that the admonition might profit him? 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 You pay full attention, 6 although it is not for you to be concerned if he remained unpurified. 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 And he fears, 9 From him you are distracted. 10 No! Indeed, these verses are a reminder; 11 So let him who pleases mind it. 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 exalted and purified, 14 Written by the hands of emissaries. 15 Noble, virtuous. 16 Be cursed (the disbelieving) man! How ungrateful he is! 17 Of what substance God created him? 18 From a drop of liquid; He created him and then set several measures for him. 19 Then maketh the way easy for him, 20 then makes him to die, and buries him, 21 Then when He pleases, He will bring him back to life. 22 Not one – he has not yet completed what he was commanded. 23 Then let man look at his food, 24 We poured out the rains abundantly, 25 and then We cleaved the earth asunder. 26 and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it, 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 And olives and date palms, 29 And garden-closes of thick foliage 30 and fruits and herbage, 31 as provision for you and for your cattle to enjoy. 32 But when the great calamity comes 33 upon the day when a man shall flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 And his wife and his children, 36 Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others. 37 Many a face will be glittering on that day. 38 Laughing, joyous. 39 And (many) faces on that day, on them shall be dust, 40 Veiled in darkness, 41 these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity! 42