He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and then 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, and the admonition profit him? 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 you attended to him, 6 although thou art not accountable for his failure to attain to purity; 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 you ignore him. 10 No indeed, this is a Reminder; 11 so let those who want to follow its guidance do so. 12 (Contained) in honoured pages, 13 exalted, purified, 14 In the hands of scribes 15 noble and virtuous scribes. 16 Man is (self-)destroyed: how ungrateful! 17 From what did He create him? 18 From a single sperm He created, then proportioned him, 19 Then He makes the Path easy for him; 20 Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him. 21 Then, when it is His Will, He will resurrect him (again). 22 Indeed, he has not fulfilled that which He has ordered him. 23 Let man therefore consider (the sources of) his food. 24 It is We Who pour forth water, pouring, 25 Thereafter We cleave the earth in clefts, 26 then caused the grain to grow out of it, 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olives and palms 29 the densely tree'd gardens, 30 And fruits and grass, 31 (To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle. 32 But when the deafening blast is sounded, 33 on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 his consort, his sons, 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Many faces will that day be bright, 38 Laughing, rejoicing. 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 Blackness will cover them. 41 Those! they are the infidels, the ungodly. 42