He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away. 1 Because there came to him the blind man. 2 Yet for all thou didst know, [O Muhammad,] he might perhaps have grown in purity, 3 or have been reminded [of the truth,] and helped by this reminder. 4 As for he who is sufficed 5 you attended to him, 6 though it is not thy concern, if he does not cleanse himself. 7 But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose 8 and who has fear of God, 9 Of him wast thou unmindful. 10 No indeed, this is a Reminder; 11 and so, whoever is willing may remember Him 12 It is contained in scrolls highly honoured, 13 Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, 14 In the hands of scribes (angels). 15 Honourable and Virtuous. 16 Perish the human! How unthankful he is! 17 From what did He create him? 18 From a drop of seed. He createth him and proportioneth him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 He will then send him to death and have him laid in the grave. 21 then, when He wills, He raises him. 22 Nay, but (man) has not done what He commanded him. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 How We pour water in showers 25 and split the earth, splitting, 26 And We cause therein the grain to grow, 27 And grapes and green fodder 28 And olives and date-palms, 29 the densely tree'd gardens, 30 and fruits and fodder 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 But when the Shout cometh 33 it will be such a day when a person will run away from his brother, 34 And from his mother and his father, 35 And his wife and his sons; 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 on that Day some faces will be beaming, 38 and be cheerful and joyous. 39 And (many) faces on that day, on them shall be dust, 40 with darkness overspread: 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42