He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 when the blind man approached him, 2 And what should teach thee? Perchance he would cleanse him, 3 or yet remember, and the Reminder profit him. 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 To him you attend; 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 And as for him who cometh unto thee running, 8 and fears (Allah), 9 From him thou art distracted. 10 No indeed, this is a Reminder; 11 and so, whoever is willing may remember Him 12 upon highly honored pages, 13 Exalted, Purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 and angelic scribes. 16 Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah; 17 From what did He create him? 18 Out of a sperm-drop did He create him and then determined a measure for him, 19 Then the way He made easy. 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 then, He will raise him when He wills. 22 Not one – he has not yet completed what he was commanded. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 We let the rain pour down in torrents 25 and then We cleaved the earth asunder. 26 and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it, 27 together with grapes and vegetables, 28 And olives and date palms, 29 Orchards thick with trees, 30 And fruits and grass, 31 (To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle. 32 Then, when there comes As-Sakhkhah (the Day of Resurrection's second blowing of Trumpet), 33 on a Day when everyone will [want to] flee from his brother, 34 and from his mother and father, 35 and from his spouse and his children: 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 (Many) faces on that day shall be bright, 38 laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings. 39 And other faces that Day will be dust-stained, 40 Darkness shall cover them. 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked. 42