He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ The Prophet frowned and turned away 1 Because a blind man came to him. 2 And what should teach thee? Perchance he would cleanse him, 3 Or be admonished, so that the admonition might have profited him? 4 For him who does not care, 5 You pay full attention, 6 And not upon you [is any blame] if he will not be purified. 7 And as to him who comes to you striving hard, 8 And is afraid (of Allah and His Punishment), 9 you ignore him. 10 Assuredly this is a reminder 11 So whoever wills, let him pay attention to it. 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 Exalted, pure. 14 (Written) by the hands of scribes- 15 noble and purified. 16 Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he! 17 From what thing did He create him? 18 Of a drop of seed. He created him and formed him according to a measure. 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 willed, He brought him out. (As during the night of Holy Prophet’s ascension, when all the Prophets gathered behind him in the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Or when Allah will raise everyone on the Day of Resurrection.) 22 By no means hath he fulfilled what Allah hath commanded him. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 That We watered it in abundance. 25 and split the earth, splitting, 26 to yield therein corn, 27 grapes, vegetables, 28 and olives, and palms, 29 thickly planted gardens, 30 And fruits and Abba (herbage, etc.), 31 (To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle. 32 Then when cometh the Deafening Cry 33 On the Day whereon a man shall flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 And his wife and his sons; 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 Some faces that Day, will be bright (true believers of Islamic Monotheism). 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust. 40 o'erspread with darkness -- 41 those -- they are the unbelievers, the libertines. 42