He Frowned ('Abasa)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
۞ He frowned and turned away. 1 Because there came to him the blind man. 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 considers himself free from need (of you), 5 Unto him thou payest regard. 6 though you are not to be blamed if he would not purify himself -- 7 But as to him who came to you running. 8 While he fears [Allah], 9 From him you are distracted. 10 No indeed; it is a Reminder 11 So whoever wishes may remember it. 12 In honored books, 13 Exalted, purified, 14 In the hands of scribes (angels). 15 Noble and pious. 16 Cursed be man! how ungrateful is he! 17 From what stuff hath He created him? 18 Out of a drop of sperm! He creates and proportions him, 19 Then the way He made easy. 20 Then He caused him to die and be buried 21 Then when He pleases, He will raise him to life again. 22 Nay, but [man] has never yet fulfilled what He has enjoined upon him! 23 Let man consider his food: 24 That We pour down the water, pouring (it) down in abundance, 25 And We split the earth in clefts, 26 and therein made the grains to grow 27 grapes, vegetables, 28 And olive and palm trees 29 Orchards thick with trees, 30 And fruits and herbage 31 A provision for you and your cattle. 32 But when the deafening cry comes, 33 The day on which a man shall fly from his brother, 34 And from his mother and father, 35 And from his wife and his children. 36 every man that day shall have business to suffice him. 37 Some faces on that day will be radiant, 38 laughing and joyous 39 And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust. 40 o'erspread with darkness -- 41 these, these will be the ones who denied the truth and were immersed in iniquity! 42