He Frowned ('Abasa)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
۞ The Prophet frowned and turned away 1 Because there came to him the blind man (i.e. 'Abdullah bin Umm-Maktum, who came to the Prophet (Peace be upon him) while he was preaching to one or some of the Quraish chiefs). 2 You never know. Perhaps he wanted to purify himself, 3 Or that he may accept advice, so the advice may benefit him. 4 As for him who is not in want of any thing, 5 Unto him thou attendest. 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose 8 and who has fear of God, 9 From him you are distracted. 10 NAY, VERILY, these [messages] are but a reminder: 11 So whoever wills may remember it. 12 (Contained) in honoured pages, 13 Exalted and holy, 14 (Written) by the hands of scribes- 15 Noble and pious. 16 Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah; 17 From what thing doth He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him, 19 Then the way He made easy. 20 Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him. 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 Nay, but (man) hath not done what He commanded him. 23 Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it): 24 That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance, 25 And We split the earth in clefts, 26 then caused the grain to grow out of it, 27 together with grapes and vegetables, 28 and olive trees and date-palms, 29 and gardens dense with foliage, 30 and fruits and fodder 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 Then when cometh the Deafening Cry 33 On the Day whereon a man shall flee from his brother, 34 And his mother and his father 35 and his consort and his children; 36 for on that day everyone will be completely engrossed in his own concerns. 37 Faces on that Day shall be beaming, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news. 39 some faces on that day shall be dusty 40 with darkness overspread: 41 It is they, the disbelievers, the sinners. 42