He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
۞ He frowned and turned away 1 Because the blind man had come in his august presence. 2 But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?- 3 Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? 4 Yet you pay attention 5 So you are after him! 6 though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself -- 7 And to him who came to you eagerly 8 And with fear (in his heart), 9 of him you were unmindful. 10 No indeed; it is a Reminder 11 For any one who desires to bear it in mind, 12 It is set down on honoured pages, 13 Exalted, Purified, 14 by the hands of scribes 15 Honourable and Pious and Just. 16 May man be slain – how ungrateful he is! 17 From what stuff hath He created him? 18 Of a small seed; He created him, then He made him according to a measure, 19 and made the path of guidance easy for him to follow. 20 Then causeth him to die, and burieth 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 No! Man has not yet accomplished what He commanded him. 23 So let man just consider his food: 24 How We pour water in showers 25 Then We cleave the earth, cleaving (it) asunder, 26 And caused to grow within it grain 27 and vines, and reeds, 28 and olives, and palms, 29 And gardens of dense shrubbery 30 And fruits and grass, 31 (These are made so as to be) means of enjoyment for you and your cattle. 32 When the trumpet sounds, 33 On the Day a man will flee from his brother 34 his mother, his father, 35 his consort, his sons, 36 Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others). 37 Some faces will shine, 38 laughing, and rejoicing, 39 And other faces, on that day, with dust upon them, 40 and overcast with gloom: 41 Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones. 42