He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because a blind man came to him. 2 What made you think that he will not grow in virtue, 3 or receive some (Quranic) advice which would benefit him. 4 Now he who waxes indifferent, 5 you eagerly attended to him -- 6 And no blame is on you if he would not purify himself 7 As for the one who comes to you earnestly (striving for guidance). 8 and who has fear of God, 9 Of him wast thou unmindful. 10 By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: 11 For any one who desires to bear it in mind, 12 upon pages high-honoured, 13 Exalted and purified, 14 (Set down) by scribes 15 and angelic scribes. 16 May (the disbelieving) human being be condemned! What makes him disbelieve? 17 From what stuff hath He created him? 18 He created him from a living germ. He determined his fate 19 Then He eased the way for him; 20 then He caused him to die and brought him to the grave, 21 and He will resurrect him whenever He wants. 22 No! Man has not yet accomplished what He commanded him. 23 Let man, then, consider [the sources of] his food: 24 We poured down rain abundantly, 25 Thereafter We cleave the earth in clefts, 26 Thereby produced grain in it. 27 And grapes and herbage, 28 And olives and date palms, 29 and gardens dense with foliage, 30 and fruits, and pastures, 31 Provision for you and your cattle. 32 When the trumpet sounds, 33 it will be such a day when a person will run away from his brother, 34 And from his mother and father, 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others. 37 On that day faces will be bright as dawn, 38 laughing, rejoicing at glad tidings. 39 but some faces will be covered with dust 40 Darkness will cover them, 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones. 42