He Frowned ('Abasa)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned (his) back, 1 Because the blind man had come in his august presence. 2 How could you know? Perhaps he would cleanse himself, 3 or receive some (Quranic) advice which would benefit him. 4 As for him who regardeth himself self-sufficient 5 To him dost thou attend; 6 Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace). 7 As for him who comes to you striving (after goodness), 8 And is also fearful (of God), 9 From him will you divert yourself. 10 No indeed; this is only a Reminder. 11 (and whoso wills, shall remember it) 12 On honourable pages. 13 uplifted, purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 Noble, virtuous. 16 Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he. 17 Of what thing did He create him? 18 Out of a sperm-drop did He create him and then determined a measure for him, 19 Then eased the way for him. 20 Then causeth him to die, and burieth him; 21 Then when He pleases, He will raise him to life again. 22 No indeed! Man has not accomplished His bidding. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 We poured out the rains abundantly, 25 Thereafter We cleave the earth in clefts, 26 and thereupon We cause grain to grow out of it, 27 and vines and edible plants, 28 and the olive, and the palm, 29 and burgeoning enclosed gardens 30 And fruits and herbage: 31 all this as a provision for you and your cattle. 32 But, when the Blast comes, 33 On the Day a man will flee from his brother 34 And from his mother and father, 35 And his spouse and his son-- 36 on that Day every man among them will have enough concern of his own -- 37 Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news. 39 And (many) faces on that day, on them shall be dust, 40 Veiled in darkness, 41 It is they, the disbelievers, the sinners. 42