He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ (The Prophet) frowned and turned away, 1 Because the blind man came unto him. 2 How canst thou know, whether haply he might be cleansed, 3 (He might) remember, and the Reminder might profit him. 4 For him who does not care, 5 you attended to him, 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 But he who comes to you running, 8 And he fears, 9 Him thou neglectest! 10 By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: 11 So whoso wills may give heed to it. 12 (This Quran) is also recorded in honorable books, 13 exalted, purified, 14 [Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels, 15 Honourable and Pious and Just. 16 May man be slain – how ungrateful he is! 17 Of what thing did He create him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm He creates him, and thereupon determines his nature, 19 and then made the course of life easy for him, 20 Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him. 21 Then He will raise him up again when He please. 22 Yet man declines to do His bidding. 23 Let man look at his food: 24 For that We pour forth water in abundance, 25 And We split the earth in fragments, 26 We make the grain grow out of it, 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olives and palms 29 Orchards thick with trees, 30 And fruits and Abba (herbage, etc.), 31 A provision for you and for your cattle. 32 But when the great calamity comes 33 That Day shall a man flee from his brother, 34 his mother, his father, 35 As well as his wife and children. 36 For every man, that Day, will be a matter adequate for him. 37 On that day faces will be bright as dawn, 38 Laughing, rejoicing at good news. 39 but some faces will be covered with dust 40 Veiled in darkness, 41 Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. 42