He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
۞ He frowned and then turned away 1 because the blind man approached him! 2 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 4 As for him who was indifferent, 5 You pay full attention, 6 Though it is not your concern if he should not grow (in fulness). 7 As for the one who comes to you earnestly (striving for guidance). 8 and who has fear of God, 9 you ignore him. 10 Indeed, this [Quran] is an admonition. 11 and so, whoever is willing may remember Him 12 In honored books, 13 Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, 14 [Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels, 15 Honourable and Pious and Just. 16 [But only too often] man destroys himself: how stubbornly does he deny the truth! 17 From what did He create him? 18 Of a drop of seed. He created him and formed him according to a measure. 19 then the way eased for him, 20 Then He causes him to die, then assigns to him a grave, 21 Then, when it is His Will, He will resurrect him (again). 22 Nay, but man did not fulfil what Allah had enjoined upon him. 23 Let the human reflect on the food he eats, 24 how We pour down rain in abundance, 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 And We made corn grow, 27 together with grapes and vegetables, 28 and olive trees and date-palms, 29 the densely tree'd gardens, 30 and fruits and herbage, 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 But when the deafening cry comes, 33 That Day shall a man flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father, 35 And his spouse and his son-- 36 on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern. 37 [Some] faces, that Day, will 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 unbelievers, the libertines. 42